„Ir stok už garbę Lietuvos“. Tarpukario Lietuvos sportininkų garbės dovanų ir sporto prizų rinkinys Nacionaliniame M. K. Čiurlionio dailės muziejuje
“For the Honour of Lithuania”. A collection of sports trophies and awards of interwar Lithuanian athletes from the gatherings of the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to publicize a unique and valuable collection of honorary gifts and sports awards of interwar Lithuanian sportsmen that is preserved at the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art.In 1942, over 260 items, including prizes, automobile club badges, posters, flags and pennants from the former Physical Culture House, were transferred to the then Vytautas the Great Museum of Culture. Most of the exhibits were original works by Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian artists Sigismunds Vidbergs, Verner Krisdon, Auguste Silinia, Otto Tammeraid, Eduard Taska, Jonas Juozas Burba, renowned goldsmiths from Riga, Tallinn, Kaunas and Western European countries. The collection includes the Latvian President Karlis Ulmanis’ gift to the Lithuanian national team, the prize winner of the 2nd European Men’s Basketball Championship held in Riga in 1937, the award established by the Lithuanian President Antanas Smetona to the winner of the 3rd European Men’s Basketball Championship held in Kaunas in 1939, won by the Lithuanian national team, and a copy of the sculpture of the Capitoline Wolf, the prize to the winner of the 2nd place in the 1st European Women’s Basketball Championship in Rome in 1938. The larger part of the sports prizes is now displayed in the exhibition at the Historical Presidential Palace.

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