The Mahilioŭ Regional Art Museum was founded on November 19, 1990. It is housed in the building, which is an architectural monument of the early 20th century and combines the architectural styles of modernism, pseudo-Russian and late classicism.

On June 28, 1994, the first author's art gallery in the Republic of Belarus opened in the Mahilioŭ Regional Art Museum. It was the Gallery of Paviel Maslienikaŭ – People's Artist of Belarus, a native of Mahilioŭ. On January 22, 1996, the museum was named after Paviel Vasiĺjevič Maslienikaŭ. Today the Mahilioŭ Regional Art Museum has 4 permanent exhibitions: "Picture Gallery of the People's Artist of Belarus Paviel Maslienikaŭ", "Preserved Heritage", "Fine Arts of the Mahilioŭ Region of the 20th Century" and "The Mystery of the Cross". Every month, the museum holds temporary exhibition projects. There are more than 5,300 items of the main fund and about 1,500 items of the auxiliary fund in the museum. The collections are constantly replenished.

The Mahilioŭ Regional Art Museum named after Paviel Maslienikaŭ is located at Vulica Mironava, 33. The building, where the museum expositions are located, was erected in 1914 for the needs of the Peasants’ Land Bank, which operated before the establishment of Soviet power. After 1918, there was a finance department of the provincial executive committee. In May 1919, the building was transferred to the department of public education, and until May 1932, it housed the Mahilioŭ State Historical Museum, and then the Mahilioŭ Regional Committee of the Communist Party and the party archives. At the same time, a special vault for historical and cultural values ​​continued to operate – an armored safe room, which, until mid-1941, kept unique artifacts, including the Jefrasinnia Polackaja’s Cross lost during the war. After the liberation of Mahilioŭ from the Nazis in 1944, the historical building housed the local bodies of the Communist Party. And from 1970 to 1991, the editorial office of the newspaper "Mahilioŭ Truth" was located here.

Today, the Mahilioŭ Regional Art Museum has a branch – the Art Museum named after Vitoĺd Bialynicki-Birulia in Bialyničy.

Publication date: 15.07.2021.

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