10th anniversary

2021-04-01

On April 1, 2021, the Mir Castle Complex Museum celebrates the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the institution.

For 10 years of independent activity, the museum received more than 2 million 700 thousand visitors from different countries, for whom were held survey and thematic excursions, museum quests and classes, excursions with theatrical elements and elements of tasting, excursions in foreign languages, etc.

During this time, the museum staff prepared 96 exhibitions, including 6 international ones.

Since 2011 museum has purchased 1895 museum items at the expense of budgetary and extrabudgetary funds. As of April 1, 2021, the movable fund of the museum is 2144 storage units of the main fund, which is distributed among 14 collections, and 2594 storage units of the scientific auxiliary fund. The chronological framework of the museum's collections covers the period of the XII–XX centuries. In the museum's collections, in addition to the monuments of the material culture of Belarus, there are objects of Western European fine and decorative-applied art, as well as of the countries of the East.

There is the largest country's collection of tapestries of the 16^th–18th centuries in the amount of 13 works in our museum.

In 2016, the museum at its own expense acquired a full-fledged art collection of portraits of the Radziwills of the 18^th–19th centuries in the amount of 18 items, complementing the reconstructed interior of the 1740s–1750s of the "Portrait Hall" exposition.

The museum's collections also include 6 items included into the list of historical and cultural values of category "1", and 6 items of category "2", some of which are directly related to the history of Mir Castle.

In addition, the staff of the Mir Castle Complex Museum is actively involved into the research, cultural and publishing activities.