ANCIENT ART

The largest Lithuanian collection of Ancient Egyptian artefacts is kept in the museum.

In the exhibition presents colourful death-masks, sarcophagus painting, a mummy and a unique papyrus fragment from “The Book of the Dead”.

The antique collection of ceramics is impressive with its diversity in form, artistic black-figured and red-figured décor; these include moulded dishes meant for different purposes and oil–lamps from 4 B. C. to 7 A. D. from Ancient Greece and Rome.

The exhibition also includes a collection of antique Roman glass.