Educational exhibition „I Was a Stranger. Jerusalem, Rome, Santiago de Compostela“

Pilgrims embarked on their journeys with various intentions: to visit sacred sites, venerate the relics of saints, seek penance for their sins, pray for miracles or health, or obtain a plenary indulgence.

The exhibition playfully presents the pilgrims’ routes and the curiosities associated with the journey, revealing the goals that invited the pilgrims to embark on their distant and dangerous route. On a large map, visitors can move mobile figures towards their chosen destination and see the extensive network of pilgrimage ways that has developed since early Christianity, as well as ring a bell to invite fellow pilgrims, smell the scent of real incense, get the seal of the place they are visiting, peer into the doors of the Jubilee Basilicas, see what pilgrims took on their journey, the dangers and rest stops that awaited them. Young visitors will be able to obtain a “Pilgrim’s Passport”, which not only has space for stamps, but also includes puzzles and tasks.

Curators: Inga Cironkaitė-Bendžienė, Violeta Indriūnienė, Danielė Streikutė
Architect and designer: Povilas Vincentas Jankūnas
Comic book artists: Miglė Anušauskaitė, Fausta Čečkauskaitė, Danielė Streikutė
Coordinators: Fausta Čečkauskaitė, Vidmantė Narvidaitė, Eglė Žinienė
Exhibition installation works were carried out by Martynas Jakaitis ir ko.
Funding for the Museum is provided by: Archdiocese of Vilnius, Lithuanian Council for Culture
Exhibition media sponsors: Vilnius City Municipality, “Vaga”, “Artuma”, “IQ”, “Kelionė”, “Magnicifat”