Motol Museum of Folk Art

The Motol Museum of Folk Art was founded in 1983 on the initiative of the Ministry of Culture of the BSSR and the local collective farm “40 Years of October” on the basis of an official document “Plan for carrying out activities to organize the museum-reserve of folk and amateur art of the Motol region” developed by the joint creative team of the district department of culture Republican NMC, the board of the collective farm "40 years of October" and signed by the head of the department of cultural and educational institutions - P. P. Sakovich, head of the department of the Uzeks and the protection of monuments A. G. Mikhalen, the head of the visual arts department V. V. Urodnich, the head of culture of the Brest Regional Executive Committee V. A. Klimchuk, the chairman of the Ivanovo district executive committee V. P. Kunitsky.

The construction of the building under the Motolsky Museum of Folk Art began in 1984. It was completed in early 1990. The museum was designed by V. M. Kapshay.

The first museum collections were the receipt of museum objects from the already existing school museums of Motol, the collective farm museum of “Fighting and Labor Glory” created by the secretary of the party organization of the collective farm “40 October Years” P. P. Ptashits.

In 1988, the Motol Museum of Folk Art acquires the status of a state institution and is headed by the first director Olga Matsukevich and the main custodian of the Minyuk funds, Nadezhda Pavlovna.

Open for visits on August 13, 1995

The museum has 27 506 exhibits.

The museum has rich collections:

• Archeology - arrowheads, knives, scrapers, axes, sickles, grain mill, etc. (some of them are among the only ones in Europe);
• Black and glazed ceramics;
• Perabornaga shmatnitovaga weaving;
• Embroidery ;
• Costumes clothing Motal region;
• Iconography and early printed editions;
• Paintings of primitive artists whose technique is reflected on glass, plywood and homespun cloth;
• Copper, glass and porcelain tableware;
• The museum includes the following departments:
  • Stories
  • Peasant life
  • Crafts
  • Farming
  • Illyapratsovki
  • Weaving, clothes
  • Rites

The museum reveals to the visitors the regional features of the material and spiritual culture of the Western Polesie.

There is an exhibition hall at the museum, where the exposition periodically changes.

Of particular value is the rich photo library (over four thousand negatives) of the prewar and postwar period of the first motalskaga photographer Minyuk AA The first camera Aleksey Minyuk made his own hands from the lenses of the glasses, the aperture was paper, and the first negatives were made on glass ^[2] .

In 2008, an exposition of “Millnarst ў Akruse” was created in the windmill building, where visitors have the opportunity to get acquainted with unique wooden mechanisms for grinding grain.

In 2012, construction began, and in 2013, the opening of the branch of archeology "Our Quarant" took place.

For many-sided work on the promotion and popularization of folk art and traditional crafts in 2001, the museum was awarded a diploma and a special prize of the President of the Republic of Belarus.

The first degree diploma for high performance in the nomination “The Best Tourist Object” of the tourist contest “Discover Belarus” was received by the museum in 2007.

• Museums of Belarus = Museums Belarus: Inpharmacy museums museums of the Ministry of Culture Resp. Belarus / Warehouse. A. B. Stashkevich and Insh .; Per. s white Movies A. B. Stashkevich, V. U. Myronchyk. - Minsk: Belarus, 2001. - 272 pp .: il.