The Open Air Museum of Lithuania, together with partners from Estonia and Sweden, is completing the mobility project “Teaching Multicultural History in Museums” (NPAD-2023/10292) funded by the Nordplus Adult Programme. The last study visit of this project took place on July 1-6, during which museum professionals Pijus Lazauskas and Rūta Rimkevičienė visited the Jamtli Foundation Museum and the NCK (Nord-Baltic research and development centre) research centre in Östersund (Sweden).
During the visit, the project the participants were introduced to the Jamtli Museum’s engaging educational programmes, which explore migration, war, war preparedness and other contemporary issues through historical narratives. Meanwhile, the NCK Research Centre presented its educational material to the participants and led a discussion on the challenges of promoting the heritage of national and religious minorities in Sweden, Estonia and Lithuania.
Throughout their visit to the museum, the participants had the opportunity to see live the Jamtli Historyland programme, which consists of an immersive performance by actors and volunteers dressed in thematic costumes and presenting episodes of everyday life from different eras in the museum’s spaces.
This was the last visit of this Nordplus Adult Mobility project. During the project period, three visits to partner museums were organised and experiences were shared. The project enabled the Open Air Museum of Lithuania to improve its knowledge in the field of actualising and preserving the heritage of national and religious minorities and to successfully organise the Day of National Minorities in Lithuania on May 19.
The project is funded by the Nordplus Adult Programme.
