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)

 

Brest Art Museum

Info Telefon: 0162-200 826

Wed-Sun 10am-4pm

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)
 

Museum of Confiscated Art

Info Telefon: 0162-204195

Brest museum of regional studies

Tue-Sun 10am-5pm Copyright Bestandteil der Datenbank VCMS München 2007

"a display of valuable international art pieces (paintings, sculptures, ceramics) seized by Brest border guards as they were being smuggled out of the country. It is no doubt the most eclectic art collection in Belarus." (Richmond and others: Russia and Belarus, [Lonely planet Publ.] 2006)

A branch "Saved Artistic Valuables" was opened on 4th February, 1989. The museum was placed in 1987 in a restored building from the XXth century. The building is constructed in 1925-1927 on the project of the polish architect J. Lisetskiy in the so-called national style, united features of the Renaissance, Baroque, Classicism and Modern in the Polish variant. About 300 works of art and objects of antiques, confiscated by workers of the Brest customs in time of attempt of illegal export abroad, are represented on the exposition. The most spacious in this unusual assembly is the collection of icons. The earliest icons are dated by XVIth century. The museum collection counts about 500 icons in silver frameworks.

 

Regional Museum

Info Telefon: 0212-364 712

Wed-Sun 11am-6pm Copyright Bestandteil der Datenbank VCMS München 2007

St Sophia Cathedral (= Museum)

Info Telefon: 0214-445 340

Tues-Sun 10am-5pm Copyright Bestandteil der Datenbank VCMS München 2007

The Museum of the Belarusian Army

Info Telefon: 0212-223972

ATTENTION: OPEN ONLY by appointmentCopyright Bestandteil der Datenbank VCMS München 2007

Marc Chagall Museum

Fax.: (+375-212) 37 27 37

Info Telefon: (+375-212) 36 03 87
Besucher-Email: chagall@chagall.belpak.vitebsk.by

11.00 - 18.30 h.
Days off:
Monday and Thursday from the 1st of October to the 1st of March;
Monday from the 1st of March to the 1st of October.

Created in 1992, it constantly organizes expositions of graphic works by Chagall (lithographs, xylographs, etchings, aquatints). The Museum's collection owns the series of illustrations to Nicolai Gogol'c poem "Dead Souls" (1923-1925), the series of colour lithographs on the theme of the Bible, made in 1956 and 1960, the cycle of colour lithographs "The 12 Tribes of Israel" (1960) and other works by Marc Chagall.

 

The House of Marc Chagall

Info Telefon: (+375-212) 36 34 68

11.00-18.30 h
Days off:
Monday and Thursday from the 1st of October to the 1st of March
Monday from the 1st of March to the 1st of October. Copyright Bestandteil der Datenbank VCMS München 2007

In the house in Pokrovskaia street, the artist's father built in the beginning of the years 1900s, Marc Chagall spent his first youth. He tells about this period of his life in the autobiography "My Life". Inaugurated in 1992, the Museum gathers articles of family life of the boundary of the XIX-XXth centuries, as well as copies of archives documents and of works by Chagall, relating the artist's and his family's life in Vitebsk.