The Museum of the History of the Baranavičy Branch of the Belarusian Railway was opened on December 14, 1984. In the halls of the museum there are historical documents, photographic material, models of equipment, paintings, railway uniforms and other exhibits reflecting the work and life of railway workers. The Railway Equipment Department of the museum was opened on July 30, 1999.

Baranavičy owe their development to the railway, as evidenced by the image of a steam locomotive on the city's coat of arms. In November 1871, the first freight-passenger train passed the route Smaliensk – Brest. At the same time, a railway station with enterprises that served the entire infrastructure of the railway appeared. Over time, the station turned into a major industrial and railway center.

In July 1999, the first and at that time the only museum of railway equipment in Belarus was created. The museum was founded on the initiative of the former head of the Baranavičy branch, and then the head of the Belarusian Railway Viktar Rachmańko. Iĺja Maliuhin, who headed the Council of Veterans of the Baranavičy branch of the railway, played an important role in the implementation of this idea. He became the first researcher of the museum and the supervisor of all work on its creation.

At the entrance to the museum there is a model of a steam locomotive that passed on November 28, 1871 with the first train through Baranavičy to Brest. The museum has a large collection of steam and diesel locomotives. There are passenger and freight cars of different generations, carriage bogies, a model of a post of a crossing officer and a room for a station master, an operating semaphore, track repair equipment, a set of devices for supplying steam locomotives with water (hydraulic pump, steam boiler, steam water pump).

In 2002, the department opened an exposition of the railway troops equipment. These are original samples of equipment: a track-laying machine, a straightening and tamping machine, machines for building of bridges, anti-aircraft machine-gun installations, which were once located on special railway platforms with armored compartments for placing machine-gun belts.

Publication date: 18.02.2021.

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