Art Museum

Info Telefon: 0212-362 231

Wedn-Sun11am-6pm Copyright Bestandteil der Datenbank VCMS München 2007

Berestye Archaeological Museum

Info Telefon: 0162-205 554

Brest museum of regional studies

Tue-Sun 9.30am-6pm Copyright Bestandteil der Datenbank VCMS München 2007

"The archaeological museum "Berestye" is the unique museum of medieval east-Slavic city in Europe. The museum was opened on March 2nd, 1982. It is located on the territory of the Volynsk fortification of the Brest fortress where the city arose. Basis for the museum’s creation were constructions of the 13th century, opened in 1968-1981 by archeologists of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus. The main exhibit of the museum is the archeological excavation of an area of 1000 qm.

At a depth of 4 m is placed a part of handicraft block of 13th century - 30 inhabited and economic constructions and two streets. Two inhabited constructions were kept on 12 logs that is a big rarity in the Slavic archeology. The exposition is located in 14 halls of museum pavilion. The exhibited archeological finds are telling about the life of Berestye inhabitants. Among unique finds in the halls are a comb from the beginning of the 13th century with incised letters of Cyrillic alphabet, a metallic shank for drawing letters etc."

www.brest-region.by (corrected)

 

Botanical Gardens

Info Telefon: 284 1484

early May late Oct 10am-6pm (c) Teil der Datenbank VCMS München 2008

Brest Art Museum

Info Telefon: 0162-200 826

Wed-Sun 10am-4pm

Gomel oblast museum of local lore, history and economy

Info Telefon: (375232) 55-93-39

The Palace is built in the style of Russian Classicism and no similar building can be found in Belarus. Today there is a Museum of Local Lore of Gomel region here.

 

Gomel oblast museum of local studies

Konstantin Mischenko
Tel.: 53-95-61

Info Telefon: 55-93-39

History of Brest Museum

Info Telefon: 0162-231765

10am-5pm

"Museum of the City History is located in one building-monument of the beginning of 20th century and constructed also on the project of polish architect J. Lisetskiy. This museum was opened in July, 25th 1998. Among the exhibits of the museum of special interest are: a fitting board and a casket with the coins, designed in the foundation of the first building of Brest - Lithuanian fortress on 1st of June, 1836 and found in 1953 on the territory of the Fortress, a Brest clock made in 1767 by the watchmaker Johan Gottfried Schmidt; an extract from master’s book of Brest-Lithuanian (1638) and a map of Novogrudskiy, Podlyashskiy and Brest - Lithuanian Voevodships, published in Venice in 1771." (www.brest-region.by, corrected)
 

House-museum of the 1st RSDWP congress (ex: Museum of the First Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party)

Info Telefon: +37517 290-68-47

10am- 6pm Thu-Tue

"where the Russian Social-Democratic Workers Party – Russia's original Marxist party - held its illegal founding congress in 1898. Today, you can wander around the small museum inside, just as Fidel Castro did in 1972." (Richmond and others: Russia and Belarus, [Lonely planet Publ.] 2006)

Picture: Minsk City Executive Committee 2007 http://www.minsk.gov.by/index_a.shtml

 

Hunter’s House

Info Telefon: (375232) 74-64-76

Homel oblast museum of local lore, history and economy

The Hunting House is an architectural monument of the beginning of the 19th cent., built in Empire style as a winter residence of Rumyantsev.
 

Kamenets Tower/ Kamenets Stolp / White Tower

http://www.brest-region.by...

Brest museum of regional studies

"In 1960 the first branch "Kamenets Tower" of the Brest museum of regional studies was opened. This is a unique monument of the defense architecture at the end of 13th century. According to the Ipatyevskiy chronicle the Kamenets tower is built between 1276 and 1288 by the architect Oleksa on the river Lesnaya near Kamenets." The tower now houses an exposition. Copyright Bestandteil der Datenbank VCMS München 2007