The Astraviec History and Ethnography Museum was founded on April 25th, 2009. For today, it has collected and described more than 4.5 thousands museum items divided into 14 collections.

An active collection of exhibits for the future exhibition started already before the museum opening in the Barani village, the homeland of Kazimir Svajak (1890–1926), a Catholic priest and Belarusian social and political activist, poet, playwright, publicist and literature scholar. Kazimir Svajak was among the priests who administered the church service in Belarusian in the early 20th century.  

In October 2010, the grand opening of the “Kazimir Svajak's House” museum exhibition took place in the Barani village. Most of the collected exhibits are directly related to the life and activities of the priest and his family. Copies of the books “My Lyre”, “The Act of My Thought…”, copies of documents and photos of Kazimir Svajak, his family, friends have been reissued. The outer garment of the Roman Catholic clergy (chasuble), missal (prayer book), printed in Rome in 1905, according to which the funeral rite was held in the Kamai church.

For a decade, the district museum was represented only by an exposition in Barani and a fund storage in Astraviec. Over the years of the museum's existence, more than 4.5 museum items, distributed among 14 collections, have been collected and documented.

At the beginning of March 2021, the grand opening of a multifunctional complex of socio-cultural purpose and youth art took place in Astraviec, on the first floor of which there are exhibition spaces of the district museum. Changing exhibitions are held within the walls of the museum, the concept of the permanent exposition of the Astraviec museum is being developed, work to update the “Kazimir Svajak's House” exposition is underway.

Publication date: 28.04.2022.

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