BSU History Museum

The creation of the BSU History Museum is rooted in 1924 when, with the participation of Professor M.V. Dovnar-Zapolsky , a museum of primitive culture and religion was opened. Initially, the museum was made up of copies of the originals in the Hermitage . In February 1940, the museum was converted into a historical and archaeological museum, the collection was replenished with original exhibits donated by the Hermitage. Its funds and collections were completely destroyed during the Second World War .

In December 1977, at the initiative of the rector of BSU V.M. Sikorsky, it was updated as a museum of the history of BSU. In 1981, the museum was reorganized and from July 3, 1995 became a university-wide.

In 1995, a museum of museum studies was created on the basis of the educational department of the Museum of History of the BSU.

It is based on a thematic principle grouped in such a way as to reflect the main stages of the history of the university:

• Creation of BSU. Forge of cadres of the national intelligentsia in the 1920s.
• During the formation of the administrative-command system of the 1930s.
• Belarusian State University during the Great Patriotic War
• University life in the first post-war decade.
• After the onset of the " thaw ." Scientific and pedagogical and socio-cultural life of the university during the period of liberalization of public life in the USSR in Ser. 1950s - late 1960s
• University life in the conditions of " developed socialism " in the 1970s and 80s.
• University today.

• Museums of BSU

• Kozhushkov A. I., Yanovsky O. A. Belarusian State University: Chronicle of events (1919-1989) / Under. ed. F.N. Kaputsky et al. - М .: University, 1990. - 238 p. ISBN 5-7855-0561-4