From 2023 October 10 In the Mažeikiai Museum, there is an international exhibition organized by the Šiauliai "Aušros" Museum "Principality of Curonian Spit and Žiemgala and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1561-1795".
The exhibition prepared by the Šiauliai "Aušros" museum together with 28 partners from Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, Germany, France and Ukraine aims to show what mark the neighboring states Lithuania and Latvia have left on each other's history and culture.
The exhibition exhibits 16th-18th centuries. Images of portraits, maps, drawings, coats of arms, copies of documents, medals, coins, books of princes, landowners of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Duchy of Curonian Spit and Žiemgala. Introduced in 1569 August 3 Copies of the document written in Lublin - the act of incorporation of the Principality of Curonian Spit and Žiemgala into the Union of the Republic of Both Nations, signed by King Žygimantas Augustus, and other unique archival copies.
The exhibition "Principality of Curonian Spit and Žiemgala and Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1561-1795" - Dr. Dr. Dr. Ernest Vasiliauskas' long-term research and the staff of the Latvian National Museum of History. Marytė Jakovleva's result. The exhibition is bilingual, prepared in Lithuanian and Latvian languages. After Mažeikiai, it will be exhibited in the Latvian National History Museum.
The purpose of the mobile exhibition is to acquaint the visitors of Lithuanian museums with the still little-known 16th-18th century architecture of neighboring Latvia. during the period of history and vice versa - Latvian museum visitors - with the history of Lithuania. The main idea is to show what connects Lithuania and Latvia with the help of exhibits and archival material. The exhibition reveals this through various themes: politics and princes, economy, trade, borders, waterways and land routes, the families of the Curonian landowners (Barons Grothus, Landsberg, Tyzenhaus, Pliater, Ropa, Counts Keizerling, Medema, etc.), which in the XVII-XVIII a. established themselves in Lithuania, and in the estates controlled by them (Daunorava, Vismantais, Žeimely, Akmenė region) there is a Latvian diaspora, churches in Lithuania under the patronage of landlords and subordinate to the Curonian Evangelical Lutheran Consistory (Skuodos, Žeimelio, etc.), as well as Catholic churches subordinated to the bishop of the Diocese of Žemaičiai in Curonian Spit (Jelgava, Kuldyga, Liepoja, Livberge, etc.).
The exhibition is on display at the Akmenė County Museum, implementing the Šiauliai "Aušras" museum project "Dissemination of the International Exhibition "Principality of Courland and Žiemgala and Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1561-1795", financed by the Lithuanian Culture Council.
The exhibition will be on display at the Mažeikiai Museum until 2023. December 3
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