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    The Museum of Antiquities (Lithuanian: Senienų muziejus, Polish: Muzeum Starożytności) in Vilnius (Vilna, Wilno) was a museum of archaeology and history...
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  • of Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo Museum of Antiquities of the University of Leipzig Museum of Antiquities in Vilnius Museum of Antiquities (Saskatoon) National...
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    identified it as that of Milda. This figurine was later held at the Museum of Antiquities in Vilnius. However, other authors, including Aleksander Brückner, Norbertas...
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    wide collection of written materials and artifacts. It also organizes archeological digs in Lithuania. The Museum of Antiquities in Vilnius, founded by Eustachy...
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    Eustachy Tyszkiewicz (category Honorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences)
    permission to open a public museum twice, in 1848 and 1851, but the Museum of Antiquities was approved only in 1855. The Vilnius Archaeological Commission...
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    Vilnius (/ˈvɪlniəs/ VIL-nee-əs, Lithuanian: [ˈvʲɪlʲnʲʊs] ), previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and...
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  • Čiurlionis National Art Museum Museum of Antiquities in Vilnius Museum of Prehistoric Anthropology Groninger Museum Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Museu Arqueológico...
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    mass of 3,155 grams (111.3 oz) ended up at the Museum of Antiquities in Vilnius. The main mass of 2.6 kilograms (5.7 lb) is held at the Museum of Geology...
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    Edward Jan Römer (category Articles lacking in-text citations from November 2019)
    became the director of the local branch of the Benevolent Society. He was also a member of the Museum of Antiquities in Vilnius and the Archaeological...
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  • following is a timeline of the history of the city of Vilnius, Lithuania. 1323 Gediminas relocates Lithuanian capital to Vilnius from Trakai. Castle on...
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    places such as the Museum of Antiquities in Vilnius. The collection of valuable books totaled to about 29,000 while other items numbered in the hundreds...
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    related to Vilnius University Library. Vilnius University Library or VU Library (also VUL) is the oldest and one of the largest academic libraries of Lithuania...
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    established the Baghdad Antiquities Museum, with Bell as its director. Bell died later that year; the new director was Sidney Smith. In 1966, the collection...
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    Jan Kazimierz Wilczyński (category Physicians from Vilnius)
    Vilnius Provisional Archaeological Commission and worked for some time at the Museum of Antiquities in Vilnius. He collected artworks, took care of the...
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    professor of Vilnius University made an inventory of interesting tombstones. The list was acquired by Eustachy Tyszkiewicz and was stored in the Museum of Antiquities...
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    Tyzenhauz (1830-1880) to the Archaeological Commission of Vilnius and became part of the Museum of Antiquities. Daszkiewicz, Piotr (2009). "Konstanty Tyzenhauz...
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    proposals to open a Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in the capital city of Lithuania. Like the former Las Vegas dependency, the museum is to combine artworks...
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    Simonas Daukantas (category Vilnius University alumni)
    supported the establishment of the Museum of Antiquities in Vilnius and corresponded with Eustachy Tyszkiewicz hoping to transfer some of his collected historical...
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    Archeological Museum, featuring the world's largest collection of ancient Greek antiquities, the Acropolis Museum, the Museum of Cycladic Art, the Benaki Museum, and...
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    devastated by Nazis in 1941. In 1945, the former synagogue was still standing, although roofless. In 1946 the short living Jewish Museum of Vilnius tried to list...
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    Astravas Manor (category Houses completed in 1862)
    - owner of Švėkšna Manor - as a member) and of the Museum of Antiquities in Vilnius. The initial Museum of Antiquities collection consisted of about 6...
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    Yugoslavia. The Museum of Contemporary Art was the first contemporary art museum in Yugoslavia and one of the first museums of this type in the world. Following...
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    Mediterranean Millesgården, home of the sculptor Carl Milles and now a museum of his works Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, exciting mix of art and culture from...
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  • Dionizas Poška (category Museum founders)
    fossils, weapons, money, books. In 1812, he established the first museum of antiquities in Lithuania, within the trunk of a thousand-year-old oak called...
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    Mercedes-Benz Museum (1936, moved in 2006), now the most visited museum in Stuttgart (440,000 visits per year). The museum traces the 125-year history of the automobile...
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  • arrangements were agreed to in the "unions" of Vilnius (1401), Horodło (1413), Grodno (1432) and Vilnius (1499). In the Union of Vilnius, Jogaila granted Vytautas...
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    royal courts in Lithuania's capital Vilnius. The Jagiellons reigned in several European countries between the 14th and 16th centuries. Members of the dynasty...
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    Laurynas Gucevičius (category Academic staff of Vilnius University)
    became the Bishop of Vilnius, Ignacy Massalski, who in 1775 sent him to Warsaw, and a year or two later to Rome. Along with a large number of young artists...
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    The style was expressed in the shape of main public buildings, such as the Vilnius University Astronomical Observatory, Vilnius Cathedral and the town...
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    zoological museum. The "Physikalisch", near the Heumarkt, contained botanical and anthropological collections and prehistoric antiquities. Two large theatres...
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