Paulina Mongirdaitė, looking at the world around her through the camera's "eyepiece", captured unique images, objects and people of Palanga and its surroundings: the silent, unseasonal everyday life of Palanga, the beach life, the objects that mark Palanga's uniqueness. The postcards of the images she took of Palanga, Kretinga, Gargždai towns and their surroundings, spread throughout Lithuania, Poland and France, spreading the word about the beauty of the seaside. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, women artists, especially photographers, were a rare phenomenon in Europe. Perhaps for this reason, or perhaps because Paulina Mongirdaitė worked in the provinces, her personality and works have not attracted much interest among researchers. The exact date and place of her birth are unknown, as is the place of her burial in Palanga. Her name does not appear on the lists of the Warsaw photography schools where she is believed to have gained experience. Little is known about her personal life, who she was in contact with, what links she had with Count Stanislaus Kazimier Kosakowski of the Vaitkuški estate or with Countess Marija Tiškevičiūtė of Palanga. For a long time it was unknown what she looked like. This was dispelled by a fateful coincidence, when Jolanta Klietkute, a historian at the Kretinga Museum, came across a photograph of Palanga with the signature "Paulin Mongird". This sparked the historian's professional curiosity and pushed her into a detective-like search, which one by one revealed more and more facts about the photographer's life and eventually led to the identification of her portrait. The exhibition will be open at the Jonas Šliūpas Museum (Vytauto g. 23A, Palanga) until 7 July.