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Ancient Lithuania. Open from September 17th 2009
Vilnius. The exhibition "Ancient Lithuania" dedicated to 1000th anniversary of the first mention of Lithuania in the European historical records.
The exhibition is prepared by the Russian Museum of Ethnography in collaboration with the National Museum of Lithuania within the terms of mutual exhibition and editorial project "The Ancient Lithuania". Its realization became possible due to its inclusion into the state program of jubilee events of the Republic of Lithuania.
The main goal of the project is to represent the collection of the RME on Lithuanian traditional culture to the general auditory of two neighboring countries. Ethnographic Lithuanian collection stored in one of the largest ethnological museums in the world, includes about 3000 artifacts, more than 3000 photographs and photographic negatives, illustrative and cartographic materials, as well as the archives of renowned ethnographers and collectors. Many artifacts in these collections have no analogues in the museum fund of Lithuania. Beyond the borders of Lithuania the Lithuanian collection of the Russian Museum of Ethnography is the only one, which contains ethnographic materials, which was formed deliberately and systematically from the middle 19th century to the 1980s.
Most of the objects, photographic and illustrative materials will be shown and published on such a large scale for the first time. The exhibition embraces 166 artifacts, 50 photos, more than 20 maps, illustrations, documents and books.
The authors of the project hope that joint efforts of two largest ethnographic museums of Russia and Lithuania in the sphere of research, preservation and popularization of the Lithuanian cultural heritage will contribute to the further amplification of international scientific and cultural partnership and will receive positive response and support from colleagues and general public.
Exhibition organizers are
The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation,
The Russian Museum of Ethnography,
The Ministry of Culture of Lithuania
The National Museum of Lithuania.
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