Museum

The museum collection contains maps of Belarus from the sixteenth century onwards. The cartographical collection consists of over 100 maps in total.

There are two slutskiia paiasy, the splendid eighteenth-century girdles woven with gold and silk thread in the city of Slucak, and a priest’s chasuble made of these and similar girdles from Hrodna.

There is a small collection of sixteenth-seventeenth century coins from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Nearer to our times, there is a selection of temporary banknotes issued in 1918 by the local authorities in Slucak, Mahilioŭ and Homieĺ in the absence of central government.

A fine collection postage stamp collection contains specimens of stamps used in Belarus in 1918-22, as well as Soviet stamps with Belarusian motives. Special mention should be made of an eighteenth-century wooden crucifix from the Minsk region, a fine example of Belarusian religious folk art.

examples of folk weaving and embroidery and peasant household implements coming from all parts of Belarus, most of them were made before 1939.