Vilnius Gallery Weekend offers special programme at Kazys Varnelis House-Museum
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- Kazys Varnelis House-Museum will take part in Vilnius Gallery Weekend from Sept. 10 to 13 with six events and 50% off admission.
- The programme includes tours of “The Book Dragon,” family games and a paper marbling workshop focused on bookmaking and ex-libris art.
- The museum’s programme reflects Varnelis’s interest in book design and his personal library of about 9,500 books.
The Kazys Varnelis House-Museum is preparing six events for Vilnius Gallery Weekend, inviting visitors to explore books, art and the museum’s collections through tours, family activities and hands-on workshops.
The Lithuanian National Museum branch will offer 50% off admission from Sept. 10 to 13. Vilnius Gallery Weekend traditionally marks the start of the autumn exhibition season in the capital. In recent years, about 40 galleries, projects and art spaces have joined the festival, which this year is placing greater focus on gallery history, the art market and how galleries operate.
At 6 p.m. on Sept. 10 and 11, visitors can join tours of “The Book Dragon. A Fantastic Story About the Beauty of Books.” The exhibition explores how books are made, from materials and printing to illustration and binding. It also introduces ex-libris, the small graphic works used by book lovers to mark library collections.
The museum’s everyday work is to let people try what has not yet been tried and invite them to experience art in new ways.
The exhibition follows Ugnius the Dragon, a character from a family of book burners who discovers a hidden trove of books at home, becomes fascinated by their beauty and learns to read. A children’s book with the same title tells the adventures of Ugnius and Jurga, a girl who learns to read with his help.
The museum’s focus on the art of books reflects Kazys Varnelis’s own interests. He and his wife, Gabrielle Varnelienė, built a personal library of nearly 9,500 books. The artist valued not only their contents but also their paper, typefaces, illustrations and bindings. On Sept. 12, families and adults can attend “Dragon Skin Patterns,” an educational session on paper marbling.
The exhibition is primarily intended for children, but it is designed as an experience for the whole family and for book lovers.
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Originally published by Delfi in Lithuanian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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