On the occasion of the European Days of Jewish Culture we kindly invite you to the events organised by the Judaica Research Centre at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania in partnership with the Lithuanian Culture Institute and the Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History. This year the theme for the European Days of Jewish Culture is Memory. Visiting from Italy Professor Adachiara Zevi will speak on the relationship between memory and art, architecture and monuments.

On September 1^st at 6 pm the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania will open a personal exhibition by Ukrainian designer and artist Kateryna Beslik titled “Huliaipole – My Little Homeland”.

Dear visitors, please be reminded that the National Library is closed during public holidays so it will not be open to the public on the 15th of August. 

We are inviting artists, researchers, and exhibition curators to submit proposals for implementation at the Lithuanian National Martynas Mažvydas Library in 2024. Please complete the application form (download DOCX›) and send PDF examples of your work via email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 25th August.

Join us for the opening presentation of the online art exhibition by the “They Have a Name” project. We will be sharing real stories of trafficking victims from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and engaging in a discussion about human trafficking in the Baltic Sea Region.

This year Lithuania celebrated two very significant dates – the 19th anniversary of its membership of NATO and the European Union.

On 30 June and 1 July, the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania hosted the premiere of a work written for this space by one of Europe’s most influential composers, Austrian Beat Furrer. Considered one of the most important composers of contemporary music and a major influence on the shaping of European music in recent decades, this is the first time that Beat Furrer has given a world premiere in Lithuania. His new work Prophezeiungen (translated from German as “Prophecy”) for voice, bass clarinet and accordion was performed at the National Library.

Dear visitors, please be reminded that the National Library is closed during public holidays so it will not be open to the public on the 6th of July.

The Library’s opening hours are one hour shorter on a day before a public holiday thus our Library will be open until 8:00 pm on the 5th of July.

Please be informed that from 1^st of July to 25^th of August the National Library will switch to summer opening hours.

The Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuanian, the Association of District Public Libraries and the Ukrainian Library Association organised the Lithuanian and Ukrainian Libraries Forum “The Role of Libraries in Strengthening the Democratic Society” on 7-9 June in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda.

Dear visitors, please be reminded that the National Library is closed during public holidays so it will not be open to the public on the 24th of June, i. e. on the St John's Day. 

The PAIDEIA (European Institute of Jewish Studies in Sweden) Alumni Conference took place at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania on 8-11 June.

On June 12^th the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania was visited by an official delegation of the Committee on Cultural Affairs of the Swedish Riksdag. Ambassador Ingen Buxton and colleagues of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Sweden in Lithuania accompanied the guests.

Dear visitors, please be reminded that the National Library is closed during public holidays so it will not be open to the public on the 4th of June, i. e. on the Father's day. 

On 7 June, an exhibition of Moon photographs by Italian artist Luca Missoni opens at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania.

On the 22^nd of May an official delegation of the Republic of Azerbaijan and First Lady Mehriban Arif gizi Aliyeva visited the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania. The guests were accompanied by the First Lady of Lithuania Diana Nausėdienė.

On the 10^th of May the American Space was opened at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania – the symbolic ribbon was cut by the U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania Robert S. Gilchrist together with the Vice-Minister of Culture Vygintas Gasparavičius and the Library’s Director General Prof. Dr. Renaldas Gudauskas.

Dear visitors, please be reminded that the National Library is closed during public holidays so it will not be open to the public on the 7th of May, i. e. on the Mother's Day. 

From May 12 to 21, a series of film screenings "Classics of American Cinema" will be held in the Conference Hall of the Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania, dedicated to the opening of the American Space in the National Library. All screenings will be held in English. The program includes 4 classic American films from 1951 to 1962.

Dear visitors, please be reminded that the National Library is closed during public holidays so it will not be open to the public on the 1st of May, i. e. on the International Labour Day.