The Lithuanian National Museum
About 100m north of the cathedral is the Lithuanian National Museum (Lietuvos Nacionalinis Muziejus), which traces the history of Lithuania from prehistoric times to 1940 through an interesting collection of artefacts, paintings and photographs, including a display of wooden crucifixes and ethnographic reconstructions of peasant life. A little further north on Arsenalo, a separate department houses the much snazzier Prehistoric Lithuania Exhibition, displaying flint, iron, bronze and silver objects and covering the history of Lithuanians up to the Middle Ages.
Vilnius
- Cathedral Squarechevron_right
- Gediminas Castle and Museumchevron_right
- The Lithuanian National Museumchevron_right
- The National Art Gallerychevron_right
- The Old Townchevron_right
- St Anne’s Church and Užupischevron_right
- Town Hall Square and aroundchevron_right
- Jewish Museumchevron_right
- Frank Zappa statuechevron_right
- Gedimino prospektas and the Genocide Museumchevron_right
- Trakaichevron_right
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