Antiquity Comes Alive in Slonim. The Tapestries of Lithuanian Hetman Michał Kazimierz Ogiński

The international exhibition is dedicated to the tapestry collection of one of the most famous 18th-century state and cultural figures in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the entire Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It reveals both the scope of his arts patronage, demonstrating his refined taste, and the early cultural heritage traditions of Lithuania, as well as the artistic connections existing in Europe at the time.

The most important highlights of this exhibition are seven textiles of exceptional artistic value from a series of 12 tapestries that were miraculously preserved. The textiles were created by local masters from Slonim (present-day Belarus) in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in around 1784–1790 at a manufactory founded by Ogiński.