The exposition of Alytus Ethnographic Museum Life on Both Sides of the Nemunas (Alytus in documents) which was opened on February 16, 2008 has been among twelve best works in the world this year. It was realized by using glass textile of the French Company  Procedes Chenel International (PCI).
         The PCI selects the best works in more than 30 countries. Representatives of such countries as the USA, Canada, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Singapore, Mexico, Japan, Morocco, Honking, Chile, Algeria, United Arab Emirates, Spain, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Martinique, Holland, Poland, Czech Republic, England, Switzerland, and Turkey take part in the competition. The PCI, which will celebrate the 110 anniversary this year, selects twelve best works every year. Photos of all works are sent to Paris and this is the first time when the Lithuanians have been so successful. None from the Eastern Europe countries received this award; it usually goes to Western countries. The exposition of Alytus Ethnographic Museum Life on Both Sides of the Nemunas is the first one from the Eastern Europe countries which has received this award.
      The exposition was designed by Skirmantė Vaitkevičiūtė, the conception of the exposition was created by the museum staff members Audronė Jakunskienė, Vilma Jenčiulytė, and Vilmantas Dunderis, and the technical construction was done by Jonas Uosaitis. The exposition occupies 110 square metres and it exhibits documents of the 16th- 20th centuries from the Lithuanian State Archives, Lithuanian Central State Archive, Alytus County Archive, Lithuanian Special Archive, Archive of Architecture and Construction Institute , collections of Alytus Museum of Ethnography,  the Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, and the Library of Vilnius University.
     In the exposition of the innovatory design, maps, photographs, postcards and video materials are in perfect suit with the unique three-dimensional reconstructions of a sixteenth century fighter and a sixteenth century woman done by artists M.Kazakevičius,  M.Jakučionis, G. Navickas  and G. Markevičienė.
 Photos by Galina Tamošiūnienė.