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AKMENĖ REGIONAL MUSEUM

Museums

Akmenė Regional Museum will surprise you with its rich and colourful exposition. Here you will see the remains of the world’s oldest phytosaur found in the Šaltiškiai quarry, an exceptional collection of butterflies, which is the largest in Lithuania with as many as 5,000 of them with almost all of the world’s most beautiful butterflies, and the unique finds of the Papilė burial ground from the 7th and 13th centuries. During the visit to the museum, one will be able to see how the ancestors of the Semigallians, buried in the Papilė cemetery, used to dress up, with about 500 archaeological artefacts and weapons found: iron axes, knives, awls, spearheads, men’s and women’s jewellery

Country

Lithuania

Historic land

Semigallia

Historic sites

Historical memory sites

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