Museum of the History of Belarusian Cinema
The Museum of the History of Belarusian Cinema is situated in a small three-story building – an architectural monument of the first half of the 20th century. It retains all the best assets of domestic cinema.
The Museum of the History of Belarusian Cinema is one of the youngest in Belarus. It was founded upon an initiative of Belarusian cinematographers in Minsk in 1976 as a departmental at the Belarusfilm film studio to collect and preserve materials about national cinema, and to popularize its achievements.
From 1982 to 1988, it was located in the Republican House of Cinema (today it is the church of Saints Simon and Helena). In 1988, the museum was moved to a film studio and performed mainly an archival function.
It was opened for regular visits in 2002 in a specially reconstructed three-storey building – an architectural monument of the first half of the 20th century. Since January 2005, the cinema museum has become a branch of the State Museum of the History of Theater and Musical Culture of the Republic of Belarus. And since September 2014 it has become a branch of the National Historical Museum of the Republic of Belarus.
The main activities of the museum are the collection, systematization and description of documents and materials on the history of Belarusian cinema. The museum also organizes fund, thematic and personal exhibitions related to cinema and Belarusian fine arts. Also the museum organizes views of domestic and foreign film classics.
Publication date: 10.02.2020.
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