Mogilev Local History Museum

The first replenishment of the collection took place in 1928-1929, when the museum transferred many exhibits from the antique fund of the USSR: products made of precious metals and stones, icons, books, paintings, as well as a silver mace of the Polish king Sigismund III. But the most valuable and unique thing was the national relic of Belarus - the cross of Efrosynya Polotskaya. Among other rare valuables, he was hidden in an armored safe room.

During the Great Patriotic War, the museum burned down along with the exhibits, and everything that survived in the safe room was lost. In the end, he lost all his funds. After the war, the museums of Leningrad and Moscow allocated part of their exhibits for their restoration.

Now the museum stores more than 300 thousand exhibits, including finds of local archaeological excavations, coins, objects of worship and life, painting. They make up the exposition of the museum, which is divided into four main departments: "Archaeology and ancient history", "Nature of the region", "Soviet period" and "History of pre-Soviet times".