{"id":3194,"date":"2018-01-10T15:01:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T12:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2018-02-12T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T12:17:11","slug":"exhibition-diplomacy-of-lithuanian-exiles-in-the-fight-for-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/2018\/01\/10\/exhibition-diplomacy-of-lithuanian-exiles-in-the-fight-for-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition \u201cDiplomacy of Lithuanian Exiles in the Fight for Freedom\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3196\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3196\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2018\/02\/Exhibition2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2018\/02\/Exhibition2.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2018\/02\/Exhibition2-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2018\/02\/Exhibition2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ar\u016bnas Antanaitis, the director of the Valdas Adamkus Presidential Library-Museum. Photo: National Library of Lithuania.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On January 9, 2018 the traveling exhibition \u201cDiplomacy of Lithuanian Exiles in the Fight for Freedom\u201d by Vytautas Magnus University Lithuanian Emigration Institute and the Valdas Adamkus Presidential Library-Museum was opened in the Martynas Ma\u017evydas National Library of Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong>Ar\u016bnas Antanaitis<\/strong>, the director of the Valdas Adamkus Presidential Library-Museum, when creating the exhibition, the most difficult task was to decide what to include and what to leave out \u2013 so vast is the archival material about Lithuanian political, lobbying and other activities in exile spanning for over a hundred years.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition is aimed at highlighting the most important activities of \u00e9migr\u00e9s in the fight for freedom in the US, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Great Britain, France, and other countries. The creators of the exhibition wanted to show not the official efforts of the \u00e9migr\u00e9s, but the so-called citizen diplomacy, i.e. the contribution of ordinary people to Lithuanian statehood. Alongside material, moral and political support, they helped to establish Lithuania\u2019s name in the world and used all possible means to support Lithuania\u2019s independence abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 9, 2018 the traveling exhibition \u201cDiplomacy of Lithuanian Exiles in the Fight for Freedom\u201d by Vytautas Magnus University Lithuanian Emigration Institute and the Valdas Adamkus Presidential Library-Museum was opened in the Martynas Ma\u017evydas National Library of Lithuania. According to Ar\u016bnas Antanaitis, the director of the Valdas Adamkus Presidential Library-Museum, when creating the exhibition, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/2018\/01\/10\/exhibition-diplomacy-of-lithuanian-exiles-in-the-fight-for-freedom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Toliau skaityti<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8222;Exhibition \u201cDiplomacy of Lithuanian Exiles in the Fight for Freedom\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,1555],"tags":[2621],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-arunas-antanaitis-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}