National Polotsk History and Culture Museum-Reserve

Art Gallery

The Art Gallery is located in one of the buildings of the former collegium, the specimen of the 18th century architecture.
The expositions feature religious applied arts of the 12th-19th centuries, icon painting of the middle 18th century, Belarusian fine arts of the 20th century.
Open from 10h00 till 17h00 except for Monday
Address: 2a Karl Marx Street, Polotsk
Phone: 8 (0214) 42-36-32, 42-41-35, 42-55-47

Children’s Museum

The museum is located in the building, specimen of the architecture of the late 19th -early 20th centuries. The museum was inaugurated on May 28, 2004. The space of the Children’s Museum is the space of fantasies; bright, creative in form, diverse in contents. The exposition features eight collections from the stocks of the National Polotsk History and Culture Museum-Reserve
Address: 46 Karl Marx Street, Polotsk
Phone: 8 (0214) 42-45-58

Military Museum

The museum is located in a modern building in the town park near the Mound of Eternity Monument. The museum was inaugurated in 1985. The exponents tell about the defence, occupation period and liberation from the Nazis; about the guerrilla movement in the region; Polotsk residents who took part in the Great Patriotic War.
Address: Mound of Eternity, Polotsk
Phone: 8 (0214) 43-44-21

Museum of Weaving of the Vitebsk Region

Inaugurated in 1998, the exposition is located in a former residential house, the specimen of the late 19th century architecture. The exposition features the traditions, semantics, way of life and peculiar features of weaving in the Vitebsk region in the late 19th – early 20th centuries.
Open form 10h00 till 17h00 except for Monday
Address: 1 Voikova Street, Polotsk
Phone: 8 (0214) 42-30-41

Simeon of Polotsk’s Museum-Library

The exposition was unveiled in March 1994 in the building of the former Fraternity school, the specimen of the late 18th century architecture. The exposition tells about the life and art of our compatriot, outstanding enlightener, poet, writer, playwright, teacher and church figure Simeon of Polotsk (1629 – 1680).
Open form 10h00 till 17h00 except for Monday
The reading hall is open from 10h00 till 16h00on Wednesdays, Thursday and Saturdays
Address: 22 Lenin Street, Polotsk
Phone: 8 (0214) 42-63-39.

The exposition “Walking down Nizhne-Pokrovskaya Street”

The exposition is deployed in the house of Peter I, the specimen of the late 17th century architecture. It was opened in May 1998. The exponents tell about the history of Nizhne-Pokrovskaya Street, about the people who lived in this street in the early 20th century (1910)
Open from 10h00 till 17h00 except for Monday
Address: 33 Lenin Street, Polotsk
Phone: 8 (0214) 42-28-55.

The Local Lore Museum

The museum was opened in 1926. It is located inside a former Lutheran kirche, a specimen of the late 19th – early 20th century architecture. The museum tells about the history of the city, its economic, political, and cultural lives in various times starting from the first settlement on the River Polota and up till 1917.
Open from 10h00 till 17h00 except for Monday.
Address: 11 Lenin Street, Polotsk. Phone: 8 (0214) 42-27-15, 42-25-41.

The Architecture History Museum of St Sophia Cathedral

The museum is located inside St. Sophia Cathedral, an example of architecture of the mid 11th – mid 18th centuries. Opened in 1987. The museum tells about the history of the most ancient stone building of the present Belarus, its multiple redesigns, repairs and the last restoration of the monument. Every April and November St. Sophia Cathedral hosts concerts of ancient chamber music and organ music, every Sunday – organ music concerts performed by a concert hall soloist.
Open from 10h00 till 17h00 except for Monday
Address: Zamkovaya 1, Polotsk. Phone: 8 (0214) 42-53-40.

The Apartment-Museum of Soviet Union Hero Z.M. Tusnolobova-Marchenko

The memorial museum is located in a room of a dwelling house where Z.M. Tusnolobova-Marchenko, an honourable citizen of the city, courageous nurse, who had saved lives of many soldiers and officers during the Great Patriotic War, spent her last years. The museum was opened in 1987.
Open from 10h00 till 15h00 except for Monday
Address: 1 23 Gvardeitsev Street, Polotsk. Phone: 8 (0214) 43-94-69.

The Belarusian Printing Museum

Located in the building of the Fraternity School, an example of architecture of the late 18th century. Open in 1990. 1,500 exhibitions are showcased. The exhibits tell the story of Belarusian books (written and printed ones), prebook and book printing, paper, book illustration technologies, types of printed products, Belarusian enlighteners, whose lives were connected with book printing.
Open from 10h00 till 17h00 except for Monday
Address: 22 Lenin Street, Polotsk. Phone: 8 (0214) 42-57-25.

The Nature and Ecology Museum

Located in a former water tower, which was built in 1956. The building is as high as 32.7 metres and 8 metres in diameter. Has four exhibition levels with around 200 exhibits on display. The main idea of the exposition is to show nature as a value and the basis of the mankind’s existence and to show Man and its ecological problems as part of nature.
Open from 10h00 till 17h00 except for Monday
Address: F. Skorina Street, Polotsk. Phone: 8 (0214) 42-42-13.