Vytauto Didžiojo Muziejus Geismas
Desire of Vytautas the Great Museum

Summary/Abstract: By applying concepts of psychoanalysis to the research of architecture, this article delves into the uncanny of the Vytautas the Great museum in Kaunas. Both architecture of the museum as well as its mediated images and narratives are constructs of representation and should be understood in those terms. The analysis is contextualized by linking the architectural programs of the museum to some of social and artistic programs of Western culture which had great importance to the development of modernity during last three hundred years. Through deconstruction of the aura of monumentality, the contradictions of the museum are revealed in its discursive space of subject and object relations. This fragmented space of image construction and interplay is further discussed as signifying its own continual movement. This leads to conclusion that modernity of Vytautas the Great museum should be detected in its structure of references, and less so in its style as referencing the form of the object.

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