War museums in Belarus

War museums

All historical and regional museums in Belarus have halls and expositions dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. Every district in the country keeps the memory of those terrible years by collecting priceless rarities, military chronicles of towns and villages, tragedies of shattered lives, stories about the heroic deeds of people who made their contribution to the long-awaited Victory…

Rare exhibits are displayed in school museums where several generations of people have been collecting the evidence of the troubled years, memories of soldiers, partisans and underground fighters, prisoners of concentration camps and local residents for decades…

During the trip to Belarus you can see numerous local expositions and unique military collections.

The main storage of rarities is the world’s first Museum of the Great Patriotic War History which was founded in Minsk. In the run-up to the 70th anniversary of Belarus’ liberation from Nazi invaders the museum was opened in a new building and became an interactive historical complex. Today the Belarusian museum has one of the biggest collections of World War Two exhibits in the world.

Big collections of military artifacts can be seen in the following Belarusian museums: