Birštonas Sacral Art Museum
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The city Birstonas near the Church of St. Anthony of Padua is located sacral museum, built in 2000. The museum was established in a former rector and has a distinctive ethnographic style.

Of particular interest is the museum for fans of religious art. The museum houses a large collection of religious art - textiles, paintings, liturgical utensils, sculpture and folk art. Visitors to the museum will see two memorial expositions are devoted to the Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church Vincentas Sladkyavichyusu and martyr Archbishop Teofiliyusu Matulionis. About them, visitors can watch movies, as well as the visit of the Pope to Lithuania.

Each month the museum hosts various exhibitions and events, "Advent-time expectations," "Meet the Icon", "Let's paint Easter eggs." Also in the museum often hosts cultural evenings - meetings, presentations of books, lectures and so forth.

In one of the rooms of the museum of sacred buildings to return from exile in 1956 and lived Teofiliyus Matulionis in 1957 on the night of December 25, he secretly devoted to the bishops can. Vincentas Sladkyavichyusa.

Of particular value in the art exhibition is a treasure trove of gold. It represented the most unique and valuable liturgical utensils from churches Kaisiadorys bishoprics. Visiting the exhibition on the history of the church can be seen only in Lithuania, a book about the Russification of the XIX century and the first Lithuanian Catholic edition of the New Testament. Carved wood sculptures and figurines on religious themes are in the hall of folk art.

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