Based on archival documents, the article gives information on the origin of ancient sculptures located in the area of the Faculty of arts of the Masaryk university in Brno and coming from Kyme in Asia minor. The author analyses circumstances of the transformation of its plaster replicas from Prague to Brno, where they have been placed in the "Exposition of contemporary culture in the Czechoslovakia" in the year 1928, and the role of professor A. Salač in this process.