Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War, Minsk

Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War, Minsk (Belarus)

The museum was founded on 30 September 1943 by the resolution of the Bureau of Belarus Communist Party Central Committee. It was opened for visitors on 22 October 1944 in the liberated city of Minsk in the left intact building of the Trade Union House on Liberty Square. By the order of the Ministry of Culture of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic on 15 December 1966 the museum was dislocated to Lenin Av. 25a (now Nezalezhnast Av.). It was the first museum in the world of this theme. Nowadays the museum is the most important institution of national memory about the great deed of Belarusian people and the people of the Soviet Union in the struggle against Nazism. The museum became one of the research centers about the Great Patriotic War.There are 24 exhibition halls. The main sections of the exposition are The Battles in the Westerly Direction. 1941-1942 German-Nazi Occupation in Belarus. The museum collaborates with the museums of Russia Ukraine Slovakia Germany etc. The museum has a branch the Memorial Republican Monument to the Internationalist Soldiers in the city of Minsk.