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49-683: The museum was opened to the public on 18 October 2018 in the building designed by Studio Libeskind and Do Architects studio. Total building floor area: 3100 sq.m., height: 17 m. Architect Daniel Libeskind commented that although it is his smallest project, it is also one of his favorites, and he also noted that he used circular form in it for the first time (spiral staircase in the interior). Italian news agency ANSA included Mo Museum into Top 10 21st century museums to visit. The museum hosts numerous exhibitions, film screenings, educational workshops, concerts and other cultural events, which are intended for various age groups. MO began its work in 2008, when

98-1022: A 2002 war museum in England suggesting the shards of a fractured globe, can seem like a caricature of his own aesthetic." In the UK magazine Building Design , Owen Hatherley wrote of Libeskind's students' union for London Metropolitan University : "All of its vaulting, aggressive gestures were designed to 'put London Met on the map', and to give an image of fearless modernity with, however, little of consequence." William JR Curtis in Architectural Review called his Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre "a pile-up of Libeskindian clichés without sense, form or meaning" and wrote that his Hyundai Development Corporation Headquarters delivered "a trite and noisy corporate message". In response, Libeskind says he ignores critics: "How can I read them? I have more important things to read." The following projects are listed on

147-628: A Cooper Union fellowship. Nina is co-founder for Studio Daniel Libeskind. She is the daughter of the late-Canadian political leader David Lewis and the sister of former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations , Stephen Lewis . Libeskind has lived, among other places, in New York City, Toronto, Michigan, Italy, Germany, and Los Angeles. He is both a U.S. and Israeli citizen. Nina and Daniel Libeskind have three children: Lev, Noam, and Rachel. Do Architects Do Architects

196-607: A couple of tens of schools and communities in Vilnius with the project “Travelling museum” in 2010. They attempted to achieve a different point of view towards creativity, arts education as well as the relationship between arts world and the lifestyle of people. The team conducted numerous lessons and meetings during which the participants were able to get to know the Lithuanian culture in non-traditional forms and ways. Daniel Libeskind Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946)

245-418: A number of international design firms to develop objects, furniture, and industrial fixtures for interiors of buildings. He has been commissioned to work with design companies such as Fiam, Artemide , Jacuzzi , TreP-Tre-Piu, Oliviari, Sawaya & Moroni, Poltrona Frau, Swarovski, and others. Libeskind's design projects also include sculpture. Several sculptures built in the early 1990s were based on

294-634: A part of MO's collection date from the 1960s to works of the present day. The collection includes the humanist works of school photographers Antanas Sutkus, Aleksandras Macijauskas, Romualdas Rakauskas, while Alfonsas Budvytis and Vytautas Balčytis are representatives of later generations. Video art The collection of video art contains documentary works made while using strategies of social studies (Artūras Raila, Robertas Antinis), as well as expressions of individual surrealist reality (Jurga Barilaitė, Evaldas Jansas, Svajonė and Paulius Stanikai). Sculpture Numerous pieces of sculpture and objects are part of

343-486: Is a Lithuanian architecture and urban design studio founded in Vilnius in 2013 by architects Andrė Baldišiūtė , Gilma Teodora Gylytė , Sabina Grincevičiūtė and Algimantas Neniškis. The studio focuses on large-scale conversion projects, public spaces , commercial , public and residential buildings. With more than 50 full-time employees, Do Architects is among the largest architecture firms in both Lithuania and

392-542: Is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor and set designer . Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect. He is known for the design and completion of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, that opened in 2001. On February 27, 2003, Libeskind received further international attention after he won the competition to be the master plan architect for

441-493: Is a renowned architecture studio, as well as Lithuanian architecture studio Do Architects . This project was the first one in collaboration with “Studio Libeskind” in the Baltic states. The main aim of building MO Museum was to establish symbolic cultural gates that lead from the medieval Old Town to the modern New Town of 18th century. Mo Museum also revived one of the culturally iconic spaces of Vilnius, in which “Lietuvos” cinema

490-531: Is located next to the museum, was Vilnius’ main water source and was operative until the 19th century. The “Lietuvos” cinema was built in this location in 1965 and later became a culturally important space for the city, providing culture for its people until 2005. The construction of the MO Museum, which was funded by Viktoras and Danguolė Butkai, began in the location of the “Lietuvos” cinema in April, 2017. It

539-624: Is situated in, was designed by a well-known American architect Daniel Libeskind. The greatest works of his include: the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Denver Art Museum, Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, Museum of Military History in Dresden and others. D. Libeskind is also the head architect of the rebuilt One World Trade Center. The design project of MO Museum building was implemented in partnership with “Studio Libeskind”, which

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588-645: Is the base of Lithuanian modern and contemporary art development. A part of MO's collection is art that was ideologically rejected during the Soviet times and received no attention from the greatest museums in Lithuania because of the political views at that time. The collection introduces those artists who started creating after Lithuania had restored its independence as well. Many of those creators are still working to this day and are well-known artists both in Lithuania and worldwide. A new project, “History of Culture,”

637-648: The Amalgamated Housing Cooperative in the northwest Bronx , a union-sponsored, middle-income cooperative development. He attended the Bronx High School of Science . The print shop where his father worked was on Stone Street in Lower Manhattan , and he watched the original World Trade Center being built in the 1960s. Libeskind became a United States citizen in 1965. Daniel Libeskind was accepted at Cooper Union for

686-690: The Berlin Wall fell shortly thereafter and the project was cancelled. Libeskind won the first four project competitions he entered including the Jewish Museum Berlin in 1989, which became the first museum dedicated to the Holocaust in WWII and opened to the public in 2001 with international acclaim. This was his first major international success and was one of the first building modifications designed after reunification . A glass courtyard

735-1071: The Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen , Denmark, Reflections in Singapore and the Wohl Centre at the Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan , Israel. His portfolio also includes several residential projects. Libeskind's work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art , the Bauhaus Archives , the Art Institute of Chicago , and the Centre Pompidou . Born in Łódź , Poland, Libeskind

784-781: The MO Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania; Zlota 44, a high-rise residential tower in Warsaw, Poland; the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics at Durham University in Durham, England; the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, Canada; and Corals at Keppel Bay in Singapore, adjacent to the studio's previous completed project Reflections at Keppel Bay. In addition to his architectural projects, Libeskind has worked with

833-883: The Three Lessons in Architecture were displayed at the Venice Biennale in 1985 where Libeskind also won a Stone Lion award. Libeskind has taught at numerous universities across the world, including the University of Kentucky , Yale University , UCLA, Harvard, the University of London, and the University of Pennsylvania . He continues to teach students at various universities including the Catholic University of America. While much of Libeskind's work has been well-received, it has also been

882-1217: The reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan . Other buildings that he is known for include the extension to the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin , the Imperial War Museum North in Greater Manchester , England, the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück , Germany,

931-530: The Advancement of Science and Art and began school there in 1965 where he was taught by John Hejduk and received his professional architectural degree in 1970. In 1968, Libeskind briefly worked as an apprentice to architect Richard Meier . He received a postgraduate degree in history and theory of architecture at the School of Comparative Studies at the University of Essex in 1972. The same year, he

980-541: The Baltic states. Since 2022, Do Architects is headquartered in Betono Fabrikas, a conversion project of a former concrete element factory in Vilnius' Vilkpėdė area. The studio itself is overseeing and advocating for a broader renewal of the territory. The studio is a 7 times nominee for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Award) and a 5 times winner of

1029-494: The Libeskinds moved to Kibbutz Gvat, Israel and then to Tel Aviv before moving to New York in 1959. In his autobiography, Breaking Ground: An Immigrant's Journey from Poland to Ground Zero , Libeskind spoke of how the kibbutz experience influenced his concern for green architecture. In the summer of 1959, his family moved to New York City on one of the last immigrant boats to the United States. In New York, Libeskind lived in

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1078-714: The Pavement . Daniel Libeskind was the Head of Architecture at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan from 1978-1985. During his tenure at Cranbrook he explored various themes of space, influenced by theorists like Derrida and he was part of the leading avant-garde in architecture and academia. He produced several writings, artworks and large-scale explorations, including the Reading Machine, Writing Machine and Memory Machine. The machines called

1127-616: The Studio Libeskind website. The first date is the competition, commission, or first presentation date. The second is the completion date or the estimated date of completion. Libeskind met Nina Lewis, his future wife and business partner, at the Bundist -run Camp Hemshekh in upstate New York in 1966. They married a few years later and, instead of a traditional honeymoon, traveled across the US visiting Frank Lloyd Wright buildings on

1176-582: The collection of artworks but also towards education. For this reason, they started publishing art books with the intention to contribute to the Lithuanian education system. Many books on artists and art history by exceptional foreign writers were chosen and published for children. Published books also included translated books for youth and adults as well as albums of great Lithuanian paintings by modernists Arvydas Šaltenis and Kostas Dereškevičius. Later books in MO's collection as well as graphic artworks were published. By

1225-437: The collection of the MO Museum with the assistance of recommendations made by other art critics. All the works in the collection are professionally restored and safely stored in one of the MO's vaults. Presentation and publicity of the artworks is a priority of the MO Museum. Therefore, interviews are often conducted with the artists, and audioguides are created and recorded. Literatų street The project of “Literatų street“

1274-511: The end of the Stalin era. The Modern Art Centre (MMC) was founded in 2009 with the intention to open a museum in the future. The active collection of artworks, organized by the MMC, received more attention from the public, which helped raise the interest of collectors and thus assisted in the creation of an art market and the recovery of the arts field in Lithuania. MMC was orientated not only towards

1323-521: The explorations of his Micromegas and Chamberworks drawings series that he did in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Polderland Garden of Love and Fire in Almere, Netherlands is a permanent installation completed in 1997 and restored on October 4, 2017. Later in his career, Libeskind designed the Life Electric sculpture that was completed in 2015 on Lake Como, Italy. This sculpture is dedicated to

1372-405: The first floor, the small exhibition room as well as the reading room on the second floor while the main exhibition room is located on the third floor. One of the most important architectural details of the museum is the spiral staircase, which often tends to be captured by various photographers as well as links the museum with the past experiences of its founders. The museum also holds premises for

1421-436: The founders of the museum Viktoras and Danguolė Butkai started their own art collection. Art expert Raminta Jurėnaitė and other art critics agreed to assist with the collection of Lithuanian artworks dating from the 1960s to the present. The MO's collection is distinguished through its reflection of Lithuanian cultural modernization at the beginning of 1960s as well as the slow but continuing cultural liberation, which began after

1470-440: The fourth city in the international project, amongst other world's megalopolises such as New York or Copenhagen. Audios’ texts on sculptures were written by famous Lithuanian writers and red to record by professional actors. The history of culture The ambitious project “The history of culture”, which included history on modernization of Lithuanian art, photography, scenography, literature, film, music and other fields of culture,

1519-592: The late 1980s, where he submitted to architectural competitions and also founded and directed Architecture Intermundium, Institute for Architecture & Urbanism. Libeskind completed his first building at the age of 52, with the opening of the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Germany in 1998. Prior to this, critics had dismissed his designs as "unbuildable or unduly assertive". In 1987, Libeskind won his first design competition for housing in West Berlin, but

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1568-756: The modern interwar period and consists of works by modern interwar painters such as Antanas Gudaitis, Leonas Katinas, and Algirdas Petrulis. It goes on to showcase the counter-social-realist, colorful, expressive and decorative painting of 1970s creators such as Jonas Švažas, Vincas Kisarauskas, Vincentas Gečoir and others. Artworks of the 1980s follow, with neo-expressionist painting of artists such as Antanas Martinaitis, Algimantas Jonas Kuras, Kostas Dereškevičius and others. The collection also includes abstract painting, with works by Linas Katinas, Eugenijus Cukermanas and Laima Drazdauskaitė. The Mo Museum holds pieces of 1990s’ neo-expressionists Alfonsas Vilpišauskas, Arūnas Vaitkūnas, Jonas Gasiūno, and others. Artworks created within

1617-545: The museum's sculpture holdings. It includes works by Petras Mazūra, Mindaugas Navakas and Gediminas Akstinas. Artists of the Young Generation The collection also contains works made by artists of the young generation (Andrius Zakarauskas, Linas Jusionis, Adomo Danusevičius, Eglė Karpavičiūtė, Monika Furmanavičiūtė and others). These have received positive comments from the public and approval from numerous art critics. Art critic Raminta Jurenaite helps gather

1666-401: The past two decades include works in categories that include expressionist, by Alonas Štelmanas; realistic, by Jovita Aukštikalnytė; neoromantic, by Patricija Jurkšaitytė and Eglė Gineitytė; neo-academicist, by Paulius Juška and Žygimantas Augustinas; and conceptual variations of realism by Eglė Ridikaitė and Agnė Jonkutė. Graphics and Photography Graphic art as well as photography that form

1715-545: The physicist Alessandro Volta . Libeskind has designed opera sets for productions such as the Norwegian National Theatre 's The Architect in 1998 and Saarländisches Staatstheater 's Tristan und Isolde in 2001. He also designed the sets and costumes for Intolleranza by Luigi Nono and for a production of Messiaen's Saint Francis of Assisi by Deutsche Oper Berlin . He has also written free verse prose, included in his book Fishing from

1764-772: The public in 2003, although it was ultimately changed significantly before its execution. He was the first architect to win the Hiroshima Art Prize, awarded to an artist whose work promotes international understanding and peace. Many of his projects look at the deep cultural connections between memory and architecture. Studio Daniel Libeskind is headquartered two blocks south of the World Trade Center site in New York. He has designed numerous cultural and commercial institutions, museums, concert halls, convention centers, universities, residences, hotels, and shopping centers. The studio's most recent completed projects include

1813-536: The public to relax at. The sculpture garden as well as the terrace are located next to the museum and are always open for the guests. The collection of the Mo Museum is composed of work by numerous Lithuanian and local modern artists, dated from 1960s and the period of “thaw” to the present day and the culture of independent Lithuania. Painting The core of the collection is painting, which consists of works by approximately 250 artists. The collection dates back to

1862-686: The subject of often severe criticism. Critics often describe Libeskind's work as deconstructivist . Critics charge that it reflects a limited architectural vocabulary of jagged edges, sharp angles and tortured geometries, that can fall into cliche, and that it ignores location and context. In 2008 Los Angeles Times critic Christopher Hawthorne wrote: "Anyone looking for signs that Daniel Libeskind's work might deepen profoundly over time, or shift in some surprising direction, has mostly been doing so in vain." Nicolai Ouroussoff stated in The New York Times in 2006: "His worst buildings, like

1911-422: The time the MO Museum opened in 2018, the MMC had published over 30 art books for children and adults. MO Museum is situated in a historically and culturally significant sector of Vilnius city. The defensive embankment of Vilnius is thought to have been located in the 14th century where MO Museum now stands, while the gates of Trakai were built there as a part of a defensive wall in the 16th century. Vingriai, which

1960-430: Was assembled and written by Milda Ivanauskienė, the director of MO Museum. Vilniaus talking statutes Mo Museum released a cultural guide “The path of Vilnius statues” to help the public get to know the capital through introduction to sculptures and monuments of Vilnius. The idea was renewed in 2015 by introducing a project “Vilnius talking statues”, when 15 of local statues were made interactive. This way Vilnius became

2009-582: Was designed by Libeskind and added in 2007. The Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin also designed by Libeskind was completed in 2012. Libeskind was selected by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to oversee the rebuilding of the World Trade Center , which was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks . The concept for the site, which he titled Memory Foundations , was well-received upon its presentation to

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2058-583: Was hired to work at Peter Eisenman 's New York Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies , but he quit almost immediately. Libeskind began his career as an architectural theorist and professor, holding positions at various institutions around the world. From 1978 to 1985, Libeskind was the director of the Architecture Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. His practical architectural career began in Milan in

2107-546: Was implemented in collaboration with a modern biotechnology company “Thermo Fisher Scientific Baltics” in 2016. Participants visited workspaces of the artists, attended creative workshops prepared by art critics, were introduced to the specifics of MO Museum's vaults. 3 month-long partnership with “Thermo Fisher Scientific Baltics” resulted in an exhibition “Bridges”, which was curated by 16 scientists from various fields such as scientific research, manufacture and administration. Travelling museum The team of MO Museum visited over

2156-462: Was implemented in partnership with curator Eglė Vertelkaitė as well as over 100 different artists in the Old Town of Vilnius. More than 200 plates, made by different artists, were installed on the wall of Literatų street to represent the wide prospect of Lithuanian literature. More information on the project and its artists‘ works can be found in a book „Literatų street. Kuktūrinis gidas“ (2014), which

2205-439: Was introduced in 2010. The unique archive of Lithuanian culture history was prepared in partnership with Lithuanian art critics, historians and theorists of culture, architecture and literature. This project is designated to be of use not only for researchers of various fields of culture but for teachers, students and pupils as well. Laboratory of art An unusual project, dedicated for management of personnel, “Laboratory of art”

2254-548: Was launched in 2011 in order to offer a better understanding of the context of Mo's art collection. The main aim of the project is to educate and introduce the public to the Lithuanian cultural field. It also encourages new research as well as the publication of new, specialised art writings. Eleven different forms of culture are thoroughly introduced in the online page of “History of Culture“: fine art, literature, theatre, applied arts, scenography, dance, design, architecture, photography, film and music. The building, which MO Museum

2303-490: Was situated. Demolition of “Lietuvos” cinema was started in February, 2017. Construction of MO Museum was started later that same year with a symbolic act of a time capsule being buried under the museum. The premises of MO Museum are meant to accommodate anyone's interests and wishes to spend leisure time in various ways. The entrance hall with an events hall, the gift shop as well as the restaurant “MO Bistro” are located on

2352-521: Was the first cultural patronage project of such a large scale in the independent Republic of Lithuania as well as the only private museum of its size. MO Museum's collection is one of the biggest private collections in Lithuania, which was announced to be of national significance in 2011. The core of the collection are large sets of painting, graphic, photography and video artworks with additional sets of sculpture and interdisciplinary (performance, installation, etc.) artworks. This collection and its context

2401-501: Was the second child of Dora and Nachman Libeskind, both Polish Jews and Holocaust survivors. As a young child, Libeskind learned to play the accordion and quickly became a virtuoso , performing on Polish television in 1953. He won a America Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship in 1959 and played alongside a young Itzhak Perlman . Libeskind lived in Poland for 11 years and says "I can still speak, read and write Polish." In 1957,

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