Lithuanian museums are striving to digitise their collections. To that end, in July 2009 there was established Lithuanian Museums' Centre for Information, Digitisation and LIMIS (LM IDC LIMIS) which functions as a separate department in Lithuanian Art Museum. It is entrusted to organise and supervise the digitisation of cultural heritage as well as attend to the preservation, storage and spread of digital information. In the coming years, our specialists together with the colleagues from various Lithuanian memory institutions and museums will develop the Lithuanian Integral Museum Information System (LIMIS).

The project “Implementation of Lithuanian Integral Museum Information System LIMIS in Lithuanian Museums”

25-03-2010

March 18, 2010 Lithuanian Art Museum signed an agreement concerning the project “Implementation of Lithuanian Integral Museum Information System LIMIS in Lithuanian Museums”, that is sponsored by EU Structural Funds.

 

9 May 2012 – Museum Day for Europeana

07-05-2012

Museum Day for Europeana at the Lithuanian Art Museum on Europe day, 9 May. We invite Lithuanian museums and other interested parts to learn more about Lithuanian cultural heritage on Europeana! The event starts at 10 a.m. at the Lithuanian Museums' Centre for Information, Digitisation and LIMIS in Vilnius. Programme >

16–17 May 2012 – The Museums + Heritage Show in London

07-05-2012

The Museums + Heritage Show is taking place on 16 + 17 May 2012 and the show is celebrating it's 20th year! The Show brings together more than 130 museum suppliers with professionals working in museums, galleries, heritage & cultural visitor attractions. An annual event, incporating a trade exhibition, programme of free seminars and workshops plus the Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence. Official website www.museumsandheritage.com/

“EuropeanaPhotography” Content Seminar

24-04-2012

The second seminar of the “EuropeanaPhotography” project dedicated to the selection of content took place in Leuven, Belgium, on the 12–13th April. The seminar was organized by the Catholic University of Leuven, the leader of the Themes, Collections and Content work package WP2. Representatives of the majority of project partners gathered to present their photography collections and objects of the 1839–1939 period that are to be digitised along with the themes of vintage photos.

Lithuanian Museums are working for digitisation and for sharing their collections to Europe

10-04-2012

Lithuanian museums caught the digitisation train rather late comparing with the rest of Europe. Therefore now they try hard to come up with it and present Europe’s audience with digital images of their collections. The coordinator of museums digitisation activities is the Lithuanian Museums’ Centre for Information, Digitisation and LIMIS (LM CID LIMIS) established as a separate department at the Lithuanian Art Museum in 2009. More www.digitalmeetsculture.net >

Workshop for Lithuanian museums involved in EuropeanaPhotograpy project

19-03-2012

The workshop on scanning old photographs was organized by the Lithuanian Museums’ Centre for Information, Digitization and LIMIS and took place at its mother institution, the Lithuanian Art Museum, on the 14th March, 2012.

Uncommon Culture – International Athena journal Vol 2, no. 1(3) (2011): From Closed Doors to Open Gates is available on-line

24-02-2012

Uncommon Culture provides unique perspectives on a rich variety of cultural activities in Europe. Examining cultural institutions and their collections, this magazine gives new insight into diverse cultural activities.
Read Article and Conference report from Lithuania:
D. Mukienė: The Development of Digital Publications in Lithuanian Museums in 1995–2010. Read >
D. Sirgedaitė: The Cooperation between State and Business Agencies in Pursuing Cultural Heritage Digitisation Projects in Science and Memory Institutions. Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius (Lithuania), November 10, 2010. Read >
Full table of contents >

Commission’s Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation

03-11-2011

The European Commission on 28th October 2011 has adopted a Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation, asking Member States to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve private actors in digitising cultural material and making it available through Europeana. The Recommendation invites Member States to make available through Europeana 30 million objects by 2015, including all Europe's masterpieces which are no longer protected by copyright, and all material digitised with public funding.
Press release >

12 October 2011 – Europeana makeover

12-10-2011

Europeana, Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, today launches a redesign with new functionality. The new interface has more visual appeal and has been adapted for iPads and Android touchscreens, bringing all the benefits of touch to Europe’s online treasury.

May 3, 2011 – Lithuanian Art Museum signed DC-NET Cooperation agreement

10-06-2011

The main objective of the DC-NET project is to develop and to strengthen the co-ordination among the European countries of public research programmes in the sector of the digital cultural heritage. The project will integrate the research capacities of the participant member states, will identify their communalities and will valorise existing programmes and projects in order to initiate the deployment of a wide and comprehensive European e-Infrastructure that will increase the research capacities of the digital cultural heritage community.
More about DC-NET >

Project Linked Heritage

02-05-2011

It is a 30 month EU project, the main goals of which are to contribute large quantities of new content to Europeana, from both the public and private sectors; to demonstrate enhancement of quality of content, in terms of metadata richness, re-use potential and uniqueness; to demonstrate enable improved search, retrieval and use of Europeana content.
More about "Linked Heritage" >

Lithuanian Cultural Heritage in Europeana

15-02-2011

In February, 2011 European digital library Europeana was supplemented with the exhibits of Lithuanian folk art that were provided by Lithuanian museums.

 
Europeana has been recently provided with digital items from Lithuanian museums and other cultural institutions. For example, 5 700 exhibits from the collection of photographs and archives were submitted by the Sėla Biržai Region Museum; the items depict Biržai town, its castle and related historical figures. Moreover, Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Cinema Museum supplemented Europeana collection with 2000 posters printed out in Polish and Russian – coming from the 19th century they reflect a significant historical period of Lithuanian Press Ban.

"Comité des Sages" on bringing Europe's cultural heritage online presents its report "The new Renaissance"

24-01-2011

The report urges EU Member States to step up their efforts to put online the collections held in all their libraries, archives and museums. It stresses the benefits of making Europe's culture and knowledge more easily accessible. It also points to the potential economic benefits of digitisation, including through public-private partnerships, for the development of innovative services in sectors like tourism, research and education. The report endorses the Digital Agenda's objective of strengthening Europe's digital library Europeana and suggests solutions for making works covered by copyright available online.  More http://europa.eu >

 

Museum Wednesdays

24-01-2011

Every Wednesday the Lithuanian Museums' Centre for Information, Digitisation and LIMIS invites museum specialists and their friends to share their experience and debate major issues concerning digitisation and the development of classifiers, virtual exhibitions, dictionaries of keywords and persons names. You can find us at Bokšto str. 5, Vilnius; or you may write to us info@limis.lt.

Virtual Exhibitions of Lithuanian Museums

26-04-2010

Initiated by the Lithuanian Museums' Centre for Information, Digitisation and LIMIS, there was introduced the Virtual Exhibition System that is dedicated to widely present valuable collections held in Lithuanian museums and what makes Lithuania different and interesting in a world context.

Development of Virtual Electronic Heritage System (VEPS)

08-02-2010

February 3, 2010 Information Society Development Committee under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania together with public company Central Project Management Agency and Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania signed an agreement concerning the sponsorship and administration of the project “The Development of Virtual Electronic Heritage System” (No. VP2-3.1-IVPK-04-V-01-001). The aim of the project is to maintain the virtual electronic heritage system and, by doing so, to ensure continuity in the development and spread of the digitised content of Lithuanian cultural heritage. www.epaveldas.lt