The year of 2022 marked 500 years since the establishment of the first printing house of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the printing of Francysk Skaryna’s Little Travel Book which was the first printed book in the country. While marking this occasion, Vilnius University Library launched the Inspired by Skaryna: 500 Years of Vilnius Printings exhibition on 21 September in Franciszek Smuglewicz Hall.
The exhibition presented the first printing houses of Vilnius and the books printed in them, thus showing the trajectory of Vilnius printing from Skaryna till the end of the 18th century.
