24.03.2024. The exhibition of historical cartography “Lithuania in Europe” was opened in Vilnius, Lithuanian Echo

Raimundas KAMINSKAS

Senior Advisor to the LGGRTC Secretariat

The exhibition was prepared by the National Land Service under the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Lithuania in order to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Lithuania’s membership in the European Union. During the event, historian prof. Alfredo Bumblauskas and geographer Prof. Algimantas Česnulevičius – discussion “What relevant meanings are hidden in old cartography?”.

The exhibition exhibits:

• Cartographic publications called state passports – the Lithuanian national atlas and the Ukrainian national atlas;
• A collection of old maps of the 17th-18th centuries is stored in the archives of the National Land Service;
• Interactive old maps via touch screen;.
• Infographic stands: mentions of the name of Lithuania in historical cartography;
• Original school geography atlases of interwar European countries;
• A copy of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact map.

The exhibition will be open at the branch of the National Museum of Lithuania in the House of Signatories, Štralis Hall, from 2024. March 22 until April 7

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