The seventh "Open House Vilnius" festival will invite Vilnius residents and city guests to immerse themselves in architecture and visit buildings again, this year's program includes more than 50 special architectural objects. The Vilnius open architecture weekend will take place on July 3-4.
The theme of this year's event is architecture is a feeling. Buildings can evoke a variety of feelings in us - they excite, amaze, inspire, fascinate, take your breath away, trigger a wave of memories, confuse or even frighten. Both the architect and the viewer or visitor of the building experience their relationship with the building in a unique way. "Open House Vilnius" will invite you to feel the architecture and discover what feelings the buildings evoke in us, what message the architects encoded in them, how we understand it now and how we understood it half a century ago.
"We are looking forward to when visitors and our large group of volunteers will be able to meet live and safely in exceptional architectural objects and feel the spirit of living Vilnius again. During the event, we will ensure security and comply with the valid rules of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. We are happy that this year we will invite visitors to a traditional format event with live tours of the buildings", says project manager Adelė Dovydavičiūtė.
List of buildings for Open Architecture Weekend:
- DC Pier - Danske Bank Global Service Center office
- The urban hill of the right bank of the Neris
- Embassy of the Republic of Estonia
- Green Hall 2 - business center
- Halle market
- The boarding school is a dormitory of the National MK Čiurlionis School of Arts
- k29 - business center
- Hook / ex. Railwaymen's Palace of Culture
- Kazimierz Zoromski Museum
- Kazis Varnelis House-Museum
- The building of the Composers' Union with a block of residential houses
- Cultural complex SODAS 2123
- Cultural Heritage Center
- Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore (Vileišii Palace)
- Court of Appeal of Lithuania
- Lithuanian Railways administrative building
- Administrative building of the Union of Lithuanian Cooperatives
- Lithuanian Medical Library / ex. home of political education
- The central premises of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater
- Lithuanian National Philharmonic
- Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
- Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre
- Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Lithuania
- the Republic of Lithuania The Ministry of Culture
- Palace of the President of the Republic of Lithuania
- The Chamber of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania
- Government House of the Republic of Lithuania
- Lithuanian Russian Drama Theatre
- Lithuanian Department of Statistics
- Alexander Pushkin Literary Museum
- National Art Gallery | NDG
- Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis Church
- Park Town is a business center
- The Merchants' Club is a business center
- Quadrum is a business center
- Register Center / Center for Agricultural Information and Rural Business
- Sodra administrative building (Laisvės Ave.)
- TARTLE I Lithuanian Art Knowledge Center
- Telia Lietuva headquarters
- Tuskulėnai Rimties Park chapel-columbarium
- The house-museum of the Venclovs
- Adam Mickevičius Public Library of Vilnius County
- The new building of the Vilnius Academy of Arts
- Vilnius Railway Station, train repair depots and a turnpike
- Vilnius Chamber of Concerts and Sports
- Vilnius Chamber of Culture, Entertainment and Sports
- Vilnius Marriage Chamber
- Vilnius St. Church of Apostles Peter and Paul
- Vilnius TV tower
- Vilnius thermal power plant no. 2
- VU Great Hall
- WIX - 4th office
"Open House Vilnius" is an open architecture weekend in Vilnius, organized by "Architektūros fondo" since 2015. During it, city buildings with architectural quality and importance for Vilnius and communities open their doors. Tours are held in the buildings and are led by volunteer guides, their architects or representatives of the buildings. "Open House Vilnius" since 2015 is a member of the international network Open House Worldwide. in 2021 are strategic partners of the festival Vilnius city municipality and the Lithuanian Cultural Council. "Architektūros fondas" is a voluntary non-governmental organization.
