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    About After the Great War exhibition

    12 August – 6 September 2021, Kaunas

    The new outdoor travelling exhibition created by the ENRS focuses on the turbulent first years after the First World War. Over 200 archive and multimedia materials – pictures, maps and films together with individual stories of people who lived back in these times – present a complex yet coherent picture of New Europe established in Central-East part of the continent after the Great War.

    Kaunas will be the forth stop of the exhibition in 2021. It will be displayed in the Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum, Žemaičių plentas 75,Kaunas.

    Read about the exhibition

    The travelling display depicts how the new political and social order after the First World War came into existance.


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    Podcast

    Shortly after the First World War, the relatively small city of Kaunas was proclaimed the temporary capital of the new Lithuanian state.

    Yet, when does temporariness end?

    Listen to the podcast from our series ‘Dialogues on 20th Century History’ and explore the non-obvious, interwar story of Kaunas:



    The series is produced by our partner Free Range Productions.

    Gallery

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    Official presentation of the exhibition in Kaunas, 21 August 2021, photo: Bartosz Frątczak.
    Sunny day. Cube-like installation of the After the Great War exhibition stands next to a tree in front of a modernist concrete building. Green open space in the background
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    Official presentation of the exhibition in Kaunas, 21 August 2021, photo: Bartosz Frątczak.
    Mate-black board with Kaunas ninth forth museum written in English and Lithuanian. Beneath the inscription, the colorful map of the complex. In the background on the left, an out-of-focus silhouette of the installation of the After the Great War exhibition.
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    The outer wall of the installation of the After the Great War exhibition, with entrance into the inside on the right. The outside wall is covered with photo collages and introductory text. Inside, one can see a single middle-aged man examining the inner wall of the exhibition.
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    Official presentation of the exhibition in Kaunas, 21 August 2021, photo: Bartosz Frątczak.
    ENRS director Rafał Rogucki stands with a microphone in front of a concrete modernist building. Facing the camera, he is addressing a small crowd of dignitaries.
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    Official presentation of the exhibition in Kaunas, 21 August 2021, photo: Bartosz Frątczak.
    A well-dressed man stands in front of a concrete modernist building. He speaks to the microphone. A large poster advertising the exhibition hangs on a facade of the building.
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    Official presentation of the exhibition in Kaunas, 21 August 2021, photo: Bartosz Frątczak.
    Photo taken from behind the audience. A woman speaks to a microphone in front of a concrete modernist building.
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    Official presentation of the exhibition in Kaunas, 21 August 2021, photo: Bartosz Frątczak.
    A middle-aged man addresses the audience in front of the After the Great War exhibition. Behind him, the external wall of the exhibitions installation showcases information on the commemoration of the First World War.
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    Official presentation of the exhibition in Kaunas, 21 August 2021, photo: Bartosz Frątczak.
    A cube-like installation of the After the Great War exhibition stands in the middle of the small square, surrounded by greenery. A crowd of people gathers around it loosely. Some talk to each other, others inspect different informational pannels of the exhibition.
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    Official presentation of the exhibition in Kaunas, 21 August 2021, photo: Bartosz Frątczak.
    A crowd of people gathers on a small square in front of the modernist concrete building. On the right, A cube-like installation of the After the Great War exhibition.
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    Official presentation of the exhibition in Kaunas, 21 August 2021, photo: Bartosz Frątczak.
    In the foreground, a single man stands solemnly in front of the commemorative plaque. A bouquet of white flowers is placed on a plaque. In the background, a modernist monument made of concrete slabs dominates otherwise open green space.
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    Official presentation of the exhibition in Kaunas, 21 August 2021, photo: Bartosz Frątczak.
    Out of focus, two men face back the camera. In the focus, a large modernist monument made of tilted concrete slabs in front of them.
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    Official presentation of the exhibition in Kaunas, 21 August 2021, photo: Bartosz Frątczak.
    A man in a grey suit is speaking to two men and a woman gathered around him. On the right, is an outer wall of the After the Great War installation. An open green space in the background.
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    Official presentation of the exhibition in Kaunas, 21 August 2021, photo: Bartosz Frątczak.
    A group of women in front of the outer wall of the After the Great War installation. One of them points towards the map presented on one of the panels, depicting the extent of the eastern front of the First World War. Other women look at it with interest.
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    Interior of the installation of After the Great War exhibition. A man and young girl look at the central infographic board. The panel that they inspect is focused on societal changes in the interwar period.

    Partners

    Organiser
    logo of ENRS
    Funding
    logo of PL Ministry NEW LOGO 2021
    logo of DE Ministry
    logo of HU Ministry
    logo of SL Ministry
    logo of RO Ministry
    Financial Support
    logo of niepodlegla
    Graphic and Architectonic Design
    logo of Jaz Architekci
    Maps
    logo of PTR kartografia
    The ENRS would also like to thank the following institutions:
    logo of EU Screen
    logo of EFG
    logo of Cineteca Bologna
    logo of CNC
    logo of Deutsches Filminstitut
    logo of Eye Filmmuseum
    logo of Filmoteca Espanola
    logo of FINA
    logo of Imperial War Museums
    logo of Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas
    logo of NFA
    Local partners
    logo of Free Range Productions
    logo of 9 Fort Muzeum
    logo of Ambasada w Wilnie

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