Lithuanian National Museum will soon open a unique space to the public for the first time - the former police temporary detention center on T. Kosciuška street. For several decades, this building was managed by the Chief Police Commissariat of the city of Vilnius, and the premises were returned to the museum in the summer of this year.
The detention facilities are now adapted for museum activities, and a few days before the state funeral of the leaders and participants of the uprising found on Mount Gediminas, the exhibition "Awaken: The History of the Rebels Found on Mount Gediminas" will be opened here.
The state funeral of the leaders and participants of the uprising is scheduled for November 22.
The last three years of interdisciplinary research, the center of which was the National Museum of Lithuania, gave the impetus to take a new look at the history of the uprising, to try to tell it using new tools.
Returning to the custody of the National Museum of Lithuania, the detention building became the most suitable place to hold an exhibition about the rebels found on Gediminas Hill. Because this building was built in the 8th century. in the second half it served as a prison, where 21 of the XNUMX were imprisoned Lukiškiai square a rebel who was shot or hanged and buried on Mount Gediminas.
