High-profiled ceremony for the forthcoming The Lost Shtetl Museum & Memorial Complex - @ ArkLM
Society

High profile ceremony for the forthcoming museum in Lithuania

On May 4, 2018 the ground-breaking ceremony for The Lost Shtetl Museum and Memorial Complex took place in the middle of Lithuania, in Šeduva. The project is designed by professor Rainer Mahlamäki and Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects, Finland. Professor Mahlamäki attended the ceremony, as well as Dr Inna Rogatchi, the author of the forthcoming film and book on Rainer Mahlamäki’s projects of memorial architecture. […]

The Kremlin
Foreign affairs

Lithuania surprised at “imperial nostalgia” amid Adidas’ USSR clothing offer

Lithuanian diplomats were left baffled by still occasional “imperial nostalgia” amid German sportswear producer Addidas‘ offer to buy clothes with Soviet symbols. […]

Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects Lost Shtetl museum render
Society

Ground-breaking ceremony for “The Lost Shtetl,” a unique museum and memorial complex in Lithuania designed by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki architects

On Friday 4th May the ground-breaking ceremony will take place in Šeduva, Lithuania, for The Lost Shtetl Museum and Memorial designed by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects. The ceremony will mark the official start of on-site preparations for the construction of the 3000m2 museum, which will stand to remember and teach about life in what was a predominantly Jewish area – before local populations were decimated by the Holocaust, according to a press release from Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects. […]

Linas Linkevičius
Defence

NATO must speed up work to be ready to respond to threats – Lithuanian formin

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has called for speeding up the implementation of the decisions taken at the NATO Wales and Warsaw summits. […]

Seimas Hall
Foreign affairs

Ratification of EU-Canada trade deal makes headway in Seimas

After 10 months of discussions in parliamentary committees, ratifiacion of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union and Canada is making headway in the Lithuanian parliament. […]