Museums

It is a charming tiny village situated on the picturesque banks of the river Ptich. Examples of wooden folk architecture of all regions of Belarus are represented here.

Yanka Kupala is a national poet of Belarus. The Museum of this national genius is the oldest literature museum of our Republic. It was established in 1944. Today there are more than 36.000 exhibits in the collection of the Museum.

"The land of Novogroudok! The my native edge!" - so wrote the great poet Adam Mitskevitch about those places which you should be visited.

The ethnographical museum Dudutki (40 km from Minsk) is the first and only private museum of material culture. Here the past and present are brought together. This is a museum of handicrafts where a piece of clay, steel or wood is brought to life before your eyes.

The Brest Fortress is a monument of architecture of the 19th century. It was built in 1830-1842 as part of the fortification system on the western border of the Russian Empire. An arsenal building, engineering administration, the White Palace and a garrison church were situated inside the Citadel.

The Stalin Line was a line of fortifications along the western border of the Soviet Union. Work began on the system in the 1920s to protect the USSR against western aggression.

The National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus is the most significant gathering of fine arts well known in the world of culture.

The Vankovich's House, culture and art of the first half of the 19th century

418 original sculptures. These are plaster portraits of State and Party leaders, figures of world and Soviet politics, culture and science.

Belarusian State museum of the II World War History is the largest repository of relics of Belarus in the Great Patriotic War, and one of the most important in civil patriotic education.