Over 4,000 archaeological findings are presented at the Lithuanian archaeology exhibition titled “Prehistory of Lithuania”. These are unique examples of Baltic culture representing Lithuanian culture from the first appearance of the inhabitants on the territory of the country in the 11th millennium BC until the formation of the Lithuanian state in the 13th century. In the first exhibition hall, “Lithuania Before Christ”, the earliest finds from the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Ages introduce work tools and weapons of the first inhabitants of Lithuania. Impressive ceramics of the Baltic coastal culture from the Nida settlement represent the Late Neolithic period. The first imported metal artifacts of the Bronze Age and urns from funerary monuments of the Early Iron Age are exhibited. The second exhibition hall, “Lithuania Before the Formation of the State”, addresses the history of the period after Christ that lasted more than a thousand years. The ethnic history of the Lithuanian nation is told through archaeological finds and the change of funerary customs of separate Baltic tribes: Lithuanians, Yotvingians-Sudovians, Aukštaitians, Selonians, Semigallians, Samogitians, Scalvians, Lamatians, and Curonians.

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