The Lithuanian History Museum of Trakai is due to be the first stop of a travelling exhibition valued at more than 38 million U.S. dollars. The island castle will open the exhibition on April 26.
It will contain prints in old Russian from both Russia and Ukraine. The contents of the exhibition have been drawn from Ukrainian, Canadian, Russian, and Lithuanian private collections. They have been brought together on the initiative of the Tamoikins family museum in Canada.
The highlight of the exhibition is a collection of historic weapons. "The exhibition introduces war trophies taken from German troops in World War II, the rapier used in consecrating America's first President George Washington to the Mason order. Officers weapons from Tsarist Russia, Scythian decorations, weapons are interesting as well," Virgilijus Poviliunas, the director of the museum in Trakai, told BNS.
After leaving Lithuania, the exhibition will visit five other European countries and 11 American cities.
