Architectural drawings

Renovation project of the Vilnius Eastern Orthodox Church of the Holy Martyr Paraskeva (or Pyatnitsa)

Architect Nikolay Chagin. 1864

Draft design of the Vilnius Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

Architect Antoni Wiwulski. 1908

Project for a competition for a monument to Adam Mickiewicz in Vilnius

Designer Antoni Madeiski. 1930s

Sketch design of the Officers’ Club (?)

Designer Vladimiras Dubeneckis. 1920s

Project (unaccomplished) for a competition for the State Palace ensemble in Kaunas: lobby interior

Designer Karl Kurt Perlsee. 1940

Draft design of the Sports Palace ensemble in Vilnius: perspective

Senior architect Eduardas Chlomauskas, architects Jonas Kriukelis, Zigmantas Liandzbergis and others. 1964

Draft design of the interior of Restaurant Neringa: grand hall

Designers Algimantas and Vytautas Nasvytis. Circa 1956–1958

Design for a competition of home furniture. Group of living room furniture

Designer Valerija Cukermanienė. 1977

The collection of architectural drawings was formed on the basis of the collection of the former Museum of Architecture. It contains preliminary, competition, reconstruction and final drafts – drawings, plans, cross-sections, development drawings, sketches, constructions, details etc. – of architectural objects (buildings of various function, monuments, urban spaces – squares, parks, etc.). It also includes measurements, development drawings, schemes of excavations, and visualisations of no longer existing objects, as well as sketches and drafts of interiors of buildings of various function, exhibition pavilions, furniture, works of applied art (ceramic, textile, glass etc.), costumes, set design and industrial design.

The collection reflects the priorities, principles and architectural fashions of different periods and social structures. The works in the collection cover the period from the early 19th to the early 21st century and include drafts from the period of tsarist Russia, drafts of buildings created in interwar Lithuania, drafts of prefabricated buildings of the Soviet period, and works by Lithuanian architects living in other countries. Works by the most outstanding architects who lived in Lithuania – Nikolay Chagin, Antanas Vivulskis, Vladimiras Dubeneckis, Vladimir Zubov, Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis, Algimantas and Vytautas Nasvytis, Eduardas Chlomauskas, Vytautas Edmundas Čekanauskas and others – should be distinguished. The collection is constantly supplemented with valuable exhibits.