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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė
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Early modern travel historian researching rare books at the National Library of Lithuania and curating rare books and manuscripts at the National Museum of Lithuania. Basically, if it’s old, bound, and mysterious, I’m probably digging into it.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 19d
📢 #CFP is open!
Join us in Vilnius for the international conference “Scattered, Tracked, Connected: New Approaches to Dispersed Heritage” - exploring innovative ways to trace, interpret, and connect fragmented cultural collections.
🔗 lnm.lt/en/events/in...
#heritage #archives #museums #GLAM
Poster for the international conference Scattered, Tracked, Connected: New Approaches to Dispersed Heritage organized by the National Museum of Lithuania. The event will take place at the National Museum of Lithuania, Arsenalo Street 1, Vilnius, on 29–30 April 2026. Logos of the organizer and partners, including the Institute of History, Vilnius University’s Faculty of History and Faculty of Communication, UNESCO, and the Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council, appear at the bottom. Screenshot of the National Museum of Lithuania website showing the Call for Papers text for the conference Scattered, Tracked, Connected. The description invites museum professionals, historians, and heritage specialists to explore the fragmented and displaced nature of cultural heritage, emphasizing digital tools, collaboration, and ethical storytelling. Screenshot of the National Museum of Lithuania website listing the first three themes of the Scattered, Tracked, Connected conference: 1) Mapping the Dispersed, 2) Whose Heritage Is It, and 3) Digital Reconnections. Each theme addresses topics like provenance research, ethical frameworks, restitution, digital documentation, and reuniting dispersed collections. Screenshot of the National Museum of Lithuania website showing thematic areas 4 and 5 of the Scattered, Tracked, Connected Call for Papers — ‘Silent Absences’ and ‘Institutions and Imagination.’ The text also provides submission guidelines: 250–300 word abstracts in English or Lithuanian and a 100-word biography, to be submitted by 19 December 2025 via a registration form.
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Monday mood: quietly losing my mind over UMARC fields and 35th sermon— all in the name of research 🪄📚
A vintage illustrated postcard depicting a theatrical or ballroom scene. In the center, a woman in a yellow and purple gown with flowers in her hair curtsies gracefully. On her left, a man in a green and red costume with a plumed hat bows and kisses her hand; on her right, another man in a blue coat bows deeply while holding a violin. The background features draped curtains and a large arched window, suggesting a stage setting.
November 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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“The enemy is at the walls; we are barely holding out. If you do not come, we are all lost.”

From a textbook used by students of the Vilnius Diocesan Seminary.

#NationalLibraryofLithuania #earlymodern #manuscript
A handwritten Latin manuscript page A handwritten Latin manuscript page Title page of a 17th-century Latin manuscript titled Promptuarium Orationum in Omni Materia Subsequentur Epistolae Varie.
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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📢 #CFP is open!
Join us in Vilnius for the international conference “Scattered, Tracked, Connected: New Approaches to Dispersed Heritage” - exploring innovative ways to trace, interpret, and connect fragmented cultural collections.
🔗 lnm.lt/en/events/in...
#heritage #archives #museums #GLAM
Poster for the international conference Scattered, Tracked, Connected: New Approaches to Dispersed Heritage organized by the National Museum of Lithuania. The event will take place at the National Museum of Lithuania, Arsenalo Street 1, Vilnius, on 29–30 April 2026. Logos of the organizer and partners, including the Institute of History, Vilnius University’s Faculty of History and Faculty of Communication, UNESCO, and the Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council, appear at the bottom. Screenshot of the National Museum of Lithuania website showing the Call for Papers text for the conference Scattered, Tracked, Connected. The description invites museum professionals, historians, and heritage specialists to explore the fragmented and displaced nature of cultural heritage, emphasizing digital tools, collaboration, and ethical storytelling. Screenshot of the National Museum of Lithuania website listing the first three themes of the Scattered, Tracked, Connected conference: 1) Mapping the Dispersed, 2) Whose Heritage Is It, and 3) Digital Reconnections. Each theme addresses topics like provenance research, ethical frameworks, restitution, digital documentation, and reuniting dispersed collections. Screenshot of the National Museum of Lithuania website showing thematic areas 4 and 5 of the Scattered, Tracked, Connected Call for Papers — ‘Silent Absences’ and ‘Institutions and Imagination.’ The text also provides submission guidelines: 250–300 word abstracts in English or Lithuanian and a 100-word biography, to be submitted by 19 December 2025 via a registration form.
October 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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✨ Acutus et Argutus: Early Modern Print Culture in Motion has finally happened!

Three days of brilliant talks, sharp ideas, and lively discussions on early modern books, poetics & print networks — with speakers from across Europe.

#bookhistory #PrintCulture #earlymodern
A group photo of conference speakers
October 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Acutus et argutus has begun! Why to type something easily, when you can do labirynths, roses. Should my next paper look like that? 🫢
. Slide with a piesia artificial example – text written in a trumpet
October 8, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Love... Or Death?

#Plague or #TooPerilous
3/3
Canoodling couple seated by tree, crossed out! Bodies (sick, not in flagrante delicto) on floor, crossed out with great enthusiasm.
September 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Believe it or not, this is a parish register from the seventeenth century that was damaged during a fire! 🔥

Heat causes the collagen fibres in the parchment to denature and shrink and eventually turn to gelatine, which sometimes has a ‘glassy’ appearance.

#EarlyModern #Skystorians
September 3, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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#BalticWay was a call for #freedom! On August 23, 1989, 2 million people joined hands across #Lithuania, #Latvia, and #Estonia to mark the 50th anniversary of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, when the USSR and Nazi Germany secretly divided Europe into spheres of influence.

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The Baltic Way: How Holding Hands Changed History | Lithuania
On August 23, 1989, a momentous event unfolded that would forever leave its mark on history. Two million people joined hands, creating an unbroken human chain that spanned over 600 kilometres, linking...
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August 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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All sorts of activities happeningnin this teeny tiny vignette.

#oldbooks #rarebooks #fishing #swimming #bridges #NationalLibraryOfLithuania
Illustration of a stone bridge with two arches. A small figure walks across the bridge, carrying a stick. Below, people fish on the riverside. On the right side stands a tower and trees; on the left, hills and another tree. The scene is framed within an oval border.
August 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Annotation? No thanks, I’ll draw my feelings instead.
What mood would you doodle today?

#rarebooks #earlymodernbook #NationalLibraryOfLithuania #doodle
A printed Latin text with a large decorated initial “Q.” The letter has been doodled into a cartoonish face, with eyes, eyebrows, nose, and a frowning mouth. Above the “Q,” extra pen strokes make it look like the figure is wearing a hat. A printed Latin text with a large initial “V.” Inside the letter, someone has drawn a small face with eyes, nose, and mouth. A printed Latin text with a large initial “Q.” The circular part of the letter has been filled with a face: two dark eyes, a large shaded nose, and a serious mouth with a moustache-like line, making the letter resemble a stern human head.
August 21, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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A little bit of a personal touch left behind.

De censuris Ecclesiasticis tractatus. Leiden, 1608 #NationalLibraryOfLithuanis
#earlymodern #printculture
A close-up photo of an old book page numbered 267, showing Latin text printed in black ink. In the upper right margin, there is a visible black fingerprint smudge, suggesting someone with ink-stained fingers touched the page. The paper has a rough texture and slightly browned edges.
July 30, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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That one person in the pool 🔫💦

@Kunsthistoriches Museum Vienna

#earlymodern #printculture
A detailed black-and-white woodcut print showing a crowded public bath scene. Numerous nude and semi-nude figures, both male and female, are seen bathing, washing, socializing, and lounging around an elaborate fountain and classical-style architectural structure with columns. Some figures are scrubbing themselves or each other, while others are engaged in conversation or relaxation.
June 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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This is DAMN good BibComm 🔥
bucksarchives.bsky.social Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · Jun 10
Welcome to the archives.
June 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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To open an exhibition is a celebration in itself. But to have a President Dalia Grybauskaitė as a patron of exhibition and give her a personal guided tour is huge honor!

Queens, Realms and Emotions open till 4 January, 2025. #NationalMuseumOfLithuania, House of Histories
#Lithuania
In a vivid orange exhibition space, former President Dalia Grybauskaitė listens as Dr. Milda Kvizikevičiūtė (in a green patterned dress), one of the curators, presents a display table featuring ceramic reconstructions of historical dishes, biscuit moulds, vegetables, and a frying pan. The table is illustrated with recipes and foods once enjoyed by Renaissance queens Barbara Radziwiłł and Catherine Jagiellon. Nearby stand co-curators Dr. Vaida Ragėnaitė (in a violet dress) and Julija Janus (in pink stripes), along with Rūta Kačkutė (in a dark blue dress), general director of the National Museum of Lithuania. Exhibition cases with rare books and portraits are visible in the background.
June 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Falcon in its natural habitat.
🦅
It’s always nice to see exhibition come to life!

📖Les délices des la natura, Nürnberg, 1774
🪶Falco cherrug
🖼️ Tapestry with hunting scene

Quenns, Realms and Emotions from June 4th at the #NationalMuseumofLithuania
A museum exhibit featuring a taxidermied falcon perched on a branch inside a glass case. In front of it, another glass case displays an open illustrated book showing a detailed drawing of a falcon. In the background, a large, ornate tapestry depicts a vivid hunting scene with figures on horseback, dogs, and wild animals in a dense forest setting. The display highlights the cultural and symbolic role of falcons in historical hunting traditions.
May 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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What a week! #REFORC2025 has ended, and it was a blast. I had the opportunity to discuss a Lithuanian text published in London to raise aid for Reformed churches in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania devastated by the Deluge.
#NationalMuseumOfLithuania #rarebooks #specialcollections
@reforc.bsky.social
A speaker presenting at an academic conference. Title page of a book: A Relation of the Distressed Statė of the Church of Christ processing the Protestant Religiom in the Great Dukedom of Lithuania. Title page of a book by Samual Clarke. A Generał Martyrologię, published in London, 1677
May 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Accesibility done right at the academic conference!
#Reforc2025
The left screen features a sign language interpreter against a blue background, providing live interpretation. The right screen displays a presentation slide titled “Renouncing Erasmus? Reading…” with images of historical figures
May 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Three books. Three bullets.
These volumes—once part of a peaceful library—were struck and torn apart by gunfire in #Vienna in 1940s.
A haunting reminder of how even cultural heritage aren’t spared from violence.
#WienMuseum
A stack of three old books with visibly damaged spines and covers, pierced by a bullet. The leather bindings are torn, and some pages are shredded and charred.
May 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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National Library of Viena, is that a new encryption method?! Can someone crack the code?

Anyway, a solid warp-up for #reforc2025

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A tall wooden bookshelf filled with ornate, gold-tooled leather-bound books inside the National Library of Austria. Some books are laid on their bookbloks, exposing the red block sides.
May 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Meeting of Lithuanian special collections curators: discussing security in the face of geopolitics, crises, and thefts. How can we protect our heritage while staying as open and accessible as possible? #CulturalHeritage #security #Lithuania #specialcollections
A group of people sits in a historic Vilnius Universtity library room with an ornate vaulted ceiling decorated in blue and gray floral patterns.
May 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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The #CFP has been extended! You can still submit your proposals for the conference until May 15. Perhaps you’ll help us uncover just how much wit and sharpness it took to write, publish, illustrate, or collect books.

More: konferencijos.lnb.lt/acutus-et-ar...
May 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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F G D - some of the ornamental letters from Apoftemmi di Plutarcho (Venezia, 1566). It always fascinates me, what was the creative process while making them.

#NationalMuseumOfLithuania #earlymodern #rarebooks
Ornamental initial “F” from an early printed book, depicting a dramatic scene of a woman fleeing while being chased by a male figure in a landscape setting Engraved initial “G” from an early printed book, featuring a seated or crouching figure wearing a hat, pushing a cart filled with plants. Engraved initial “D” from an early printed book, featuring a putto seated on a dolphin, holding a violin in left hand.
April 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Knee protection in 1511. 🦁
Detail des Probedrucksvon Hans Burgkmair d.Ä., um 1511, gezeigt wird Hektor. Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg, Graph Burgkmair 6, Blatt 26r.
December 5, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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It is actually a funny story, we were just playing cards, and suddenly it started to rain, and then, bloody hell, a devil appeared...

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Say hello to an #earlymodern news pamphlet with a strange story that needed to be sung: www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/b...

#NewsHistory it is.
Detail from a printed image of a German news pamphlet from 1620 shwoing two men playing cards at a table, and one man with a devil standing next by. Source: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/bsb10925611
September 23, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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A perfect start to my time in Purdue University Archives and Special Collections: a little binding fragment!!! This strip of parchment comes from beautiful 12th-century missal with the Secreta visible on this line "Suscipe domine munera que pro filii tui" 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 #medievalsky #medievalmss
A strip of parchment visible in the back of a book binding with a line of text in Latin
April 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM