The title of the exhibition is "Accumulate. Preserve. Disclose" is not a coincidence that it resembles a police motto. This time, we present the collection of the Vilnius Museum, where exhibits are often like clues that help reconstruct the history of the citizens of Vilnius and the city itself. A portsigar tells the story of the resettlement of Polish Vilniusers to Poland in the post-war period, while a vinegar bottle tells the story of one of the city's oldest still-operating companies, Vilniaus vodtinė (Vilnius Vodka).
While the museum's investigators often play the role of detectives. They look for clues in the details, interview witnesses, establish connections between objects, events and people, and recreate forgotten stories. In this exhibition you will find 36 "cases", cracked and not yet cracked.
This exhibition takes you behind the scenes and tells you how the museum works. How do the exhibits come into being? What do the museum staff do? Who is behind the doors marked "Stop"? What does the main activity of museums as defined in the law - "collecting, preserving, conserving, restoring, researching and promoting" - actually look like?
The museum's collection contains objects and stories related to Vilnius: objects, images, documents and stories. Starting empty-handed, over three years we have collected more than two thousand small and large "clues" to Vilnius life. Most of the items were donated.

Thank you to the donors of the Vilnius Museum, who enrich the Museum's collection with their gifts, and we invite you to join their ranks:

Felix Ackermann
Mečislovas Atroškevičius
Julijus Balčikonis
Eimantas Banevičius
Nijolė Bulotaitė
Inesa Čaikauskienė
Marija Drėmaitė
Živilė Golubevienė
Zita Gražulienė
Grinda
Robertas Gritėnas
Giedrė Jankevičiūtė
Daiva Jauniškytė
Regina Kačerevska
Daiva Kapočienė
Elena Krukonytė
Algirdas Kumža
Laima Laučkaitė-Surgailienė
Daumantas Liekis
Martinaičiai family
Sigita Maslauskaitė-Mažylienė
Edita Mildažytė
Genovaitė Milvydaitė
Milda Mironaitė
Rūta Miškinytė
Vytautas Navaitis
Rasa and Christopher Oesterwinter
Edvardas Pastalys
Algirdas Petraitis
Ieva Petrauskienė
Saulius Pilinkus
Jurga Pociūtė
Povilas Poderskis
Lilija Puipienė
Pavel Puzyna
Vytis Ramanauskas
Lolita Raudienė
Rokas Sinkevičius
Robert Stecewicz
Povilas Andrius Stepavičius
Susisiekimo paslaugos
Ieva Šiušaitė
Telia
Mikas Vaicekauskas
Lilija Valatkienė
Vilniaus degtinė
Vilniaus City Municipality
Dalia Vitkauskaitė
Ramunė Vosylienė
Turto bankas
Ričaras Žičkus
Jānis Žguts
Jonas Žukauskas
Justina Žutautaitė
75 Vilnius residents, 62 Vilnius residents who shared their memories of Vokiečių Street, Viršuliškės and Krasnuchas




Exhibits for the exhibition were lent by:

Archiwum Akt Nowych

Biblioteka Jagiellońska

Biblioteka Narodowa

Centralna Biblioteka Wojskowa im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego

Dom Towarowy Bracia Jabłkowscy S.A.

ID Vilnius

Kaunas County Public Library

Lithuanian Central State Archive

Lithuanian Academy of Sciences Vrublevskiai Library

Lithuanian National Martynas Mažvydas Library

Lithuanian National Museum of Art

Lithuanian National Museum

Lithuania State Historical Archives

Museum of Architecture of the City of Medina

Muzeum Krakowa

Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe

Vilniaus Regional State Archives

Vilniaus University Library

Waldemar Wołkanowski

Wielkopolskie Towarzystwo Genealogicznie "Gniazdo"

Thanks:

Donata Armakauskaitė, Jurgis Atroškevičius, Donata Banaitytė, Eimantas Banevičius, Ilja Bereznickas, Gediminas Bernotas, Indrė Bimbirytė-Yun, Tadas Blaževičius, Ignė Degutytė, Rimvydas Derkintis, Rima Dirsytė, Jurga Dovydėnaitė, Julija Genienė, Jolanta Grepienė, Donatas Gudelis, Austėja Emilija Rita Jakučionytė, Marta Jabłkowska, Karolina Jakaitė, Martynas Jakulis, Dominyka Jankovska, Gediminas Jonikaitis, Jūratė Katilienė, Kęstutis Kilinskas, Skirmantė Kvietkauskienė, Karolis Laurinavičius, Giedrius Levčenka, Dominika Machowska-Szklarczyk, Vilius Mateika, Darius Pocevičius, Vytis Ramanauskas, Viktorija Smailytė, Jolita Skinulytė-Niakšu, Agnė Šimkūnaitė, Gintaras Štaupas, Zita Urbienė, Indrė Užuotaitė, Lina Vadoklienė, Justina Vertelkaitė, Karolina Vienažindytė, Edita Zemlevičienė, Justinas Žakauskas, Lithuanian Association of the Deaf, Consultation Centre of the Department of Disability Affairs under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour