Cultural Heritage Department

The American International School of Vilnius (AISV) has failed to get a permit from Lithuania's authorities for its planned expansion for a year now.

A Lithuanian court has upheld a disciplinary punishment for a heritage protection official who dropped a case over Soviet soldiers' tombstones at Antakalnis Cemetery in Vilnius.

As different institutions of Lithuania disagree on the future location of a monument to rescuers of Jews, an official of the government will work to align the positions.

Experts from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) approved in principle of a residential complex development project in Vilnius' Old Town, but recommended refining the concept and design of an offi...

Heritage officials and members of Lithuania's Jewish community note that an increasing number of municipalities are taking the initiative to clean and maintain uncared-for Jewish cemeteries and memorial sites, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Thursday.

The Lukiškių Square Memorial to freedom fighters, which has won a competition, falls short of heritage protection requirements, therefore, a suggestion will be made to change the Lithuanian Cultural Heritage Department said.

The Neringa municipality plans to apply to the Cultural Heritage Department with a request to list Europe's oldest kurenkahn Kuršis, a traditional wooden type of flat bottom boat that was used in the Curonian lagoon, in the register of cultural values, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Saturday.

Remaining and underground remains of the Vilnius Great Synagogue have been listed in the register of cultural values, Lithuania's Cultural Heritage Department said on Tuesday.

Lithuania's leaders say that Šnipiškių Jewish cemetery would not be affected by the reconstruction of the derelict Sports and Concert Palace in central Vilnius, dismissing the fears voiced by a group of US Congressmen as ungrounded.

Diana Varnaitė, director of the Lithuanian Cultural Heritage Department, has proposed envisaging separate funding of maintenance of the Jewish heritage, an idea supported by Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis.

The attempts to stop Lidl investments in a building in Vilnius are unacceptable, and all obstacles on the path should be removed, says Diana Varnaitė, director of the Lithuanian Cultural Heritage Department.

Russia's ambassador to Lithuania has failed to convince the local government of Šiauliai to leave a Soviet-era monument on the city's central square.