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Thursday, February 1, 2024

10th June 2022: Vytautas the Great War Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania

The Vytautas the Great War Museum was opened in 1921, but moved to its current location in the 1930s. The current building was erected in Art Deco and early functionalism style during the time of the First Lithuanian Republic, when Kaunas was the country's temporary capital, as Vilnius had been occupied by Poland in 1920. At the interwar period Kaunas became the only European city representing large scale urbanization and versatile modernism architecture. As part of Modernist Kaunas: Architecture of Optimism, 1919-1939, is the museum since 2023 on the UNESCO World Heritage List, back in 2015 it was already one of 44 objects in Kaunas to receive the European Heritage Label.


I got this postal card celebrating the museum's centenary as part of a stamp order from Lithuania.

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