Museum of Belarusian Polesye – Pinsk, Brest Region. Belarus

We visited this Museum during Summer 2022, while spending some weeks in Eastern Europe and working remotely from there. The museum was founded in 1924 and opened in 1936, just prior to the Second World War. In 1940, it was established as the Pinsk Local History and Folk Museum, and from 1954 it was the Pinsk Local History Museum. By the Decision of the Belarusian Communist Party Central Committee in 1978 and the Decision of the Ministry of Culture of the BSSR in 1979, the museum was turned into the Belarusian State Museum of the Socialist Transformation of Polesye. In 1990, it was renamed into the Museum of Belarusian Polesye.

Nowadays, the museum presents temporary exhibitions, such as: «The history of Pinsk,» «Nature of Polesye», «Pinsk during the Great Patriotic War», «Russian Art of the 19th – 20th Centuries.», «Portraiture of the 18th – 19th Centuries», «Belarusian Painting in 1950 – 1980», «Trade and Crafts of Polesye», «Urban Life of the Early 20th Century», the Gallery of Partisan Glory, among others. The main section of the museum consists of 66,783 items.

Some photos I took while visiting this museum are presented below.