The Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys visited Sejny, Wigry and Krasnogruda (Poland) for two days this week.

On 17 June, the European Union programme to mobilise cultural funding, Creative Europe, was officially launched.

The Ministry of Culture together with the Secretariat of the Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO organised a seminar, World Heritage in Lithuania: Toward Effective Management .

Lithuania is strengthening and intensifying its cooperation with South Korea in the areas of culture and art, education, science, youth exchanges, and sport.

The Ministry of Culture will submit a draft ruling to the government proposing to establish the position of the Cultural Attaché of the Republic of Lithuania in the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Japan.

In response to the incident yesterday, when journalist Raman Pratasevich was arrested after Alexander Lukashenko’s regime took over and forced an airplane to land in Minsk, the Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys is inviting Belarusian journalists accredited in Lithuania to join a meeting.

Starting tomorrow, the Lithuanian pavilion will await visitors at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. This year our country is represented at the event by the artist Julijonas Urbonas, who established a fictional Lithuanian Space Agency and created A Planet of People .

We would like to remind you that, during lockdown, artists and their staff must submit applications to the Ministry of Culture, in accordance with the established procedure, before entering Lithuania from non-European Economic Area countries.

The Swiss Federal Office of Culture has announced the Davos Baukultur Quality System, which was created in cooperation with international partners. This system is one of the steps towards implementation of obligations assumed after signing the declaration on the high-quality Baukultur for Europe during the conference of the European ministers of culture ...

In order to foster cultural heritage, EU member states should cooperate with one another more intensely and not only share good practices but also develop joint initiatives together: especially those that reflect European values.

The integrated New Generation Lithuania plan will be presented to the European Commission (EC) today. The plan foresees two financial instruments intended directly for the field of culture: in total, about EUR 65 million.

Analysis of Lithuania’s visibility in the foreign media and social networks during the first quarter of this year, prepared by the Lithuanian Image Group, has revealed that the field of culture stood out due to a large number of positive reports: in terms of the favourability index, it received the highest assessment, while overall the field of culture came third in ...