Was man in Minsk sehen sollte

Here is the biggest collection of the monuments of material and spiritual culture of the Belarusian people from the ancient times to our days. Chronological frames of the museum fund are from 40, 000 B.C. to present time. Several collections of the museum are of special value: - The biggest archeological collection in Belarus.…

Excellent overview of fine arts in Belarus. Many art description placards in English, unlike most museums in Belarus. - More than twenty seven thousand works of art – creating twenty miscellaneous collections and comprising two main representative ones: the one of national art and the other of monuments of art of the c…

Huge, glass and concrete rhombicuboctahedron houses a collection of over 8 million items. On 22 floors it features conference halls, 20 reading rooms and a Book Museum, on the roof there is an observation deck with good views of the city and surrounding area (accessed from outside via lift, ticket price below €1).

Lee arrived in the Soviet Union in December 1959 willing to denounce his US citizenship and was sent to Minsk. He changed his name to Alek and married a native woman, Marina Prusakova, with whom he had a child. The young family left for the United States in June 1962.

This impressive building, on the main street of Minsk has a façade that belies what's found within. It is somehow appropriate that in a country like Belarus, the KGB should be located in a landmark building in the centre of the capital.

The best known Roman Catholic church in the city, commonly known as the Red Church, built between 1908 and 1910 in Romanesque Revival style.

It was built in 1847 in the Russian Revival style, with a pointed octagonal bell tower over the entrance.

Built in 1613 and restored in 1871, it is the oldest church in Minsk. It is worthwhile to go inside.

50 km north. A place where a village, savagely massacred in 1943 by Nazi forces, once stood.

contemporary art space, a bar, a bookstore and a souvenir shop with Belarusian design.

Several exhibition spaces showing modern art, second hand books and antiques stalls.

A reconstructed line of defences on what once was the state border of the USSR.

An art gallery with local artists exhibitions and some overpriced souvenirs.

70m high mound from 1969 commemorating Soviet soldiers who died during WW2.

It is dedicated to the writer Maksim Bahdanovič (1891–1917).

A large collection of exhibits about WWII in Belarus.

4 km west.