One of the sights of Slonim is the private museum "Good Simple Things" by Nina and Valieryj Aniščyks. The beginning of the collection was laid in 1978. Nowadays, the museum houses about 200 exhibits.

The museum has a wide range of irons – wooden, brass, all-metal, cast iron with liners, aluminum, the first electric and many others. There are even special exhibits: an iron from the late XVIII century, as well as a matchbox-sized iron designed for ironing lace.

The museum also has a collection of horseshoes and harness. There is a round horseshoe of the XVI–XVII centuries, intended for horses of the Crimean Tatars. Here is the horseshoe of 1941 – a sample of horseshoes worn by heavy Belgian percheron horses, which carried guns during the war years. The harness is represented by collars, chains, stirrups. 

Visitors have the opportunity to turn on the old gramophone and listen to Ahinski's polonaise “Farewell to the Motherland”. Aniščyk's collection contains about 250 gramophone records.

The collection of clocks is rather modest, but there are very interesting pieces: clocks from Leroi A Paris, Bekker, wall cuckoo-clock.

The museum house also has a collection of paper money and coins of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, the independent Republic of Belarus and other countries of the world.

The exposition is supplemented by a rich library: books of the early 19th and early 20th centuries, various valuable encyclopedias, materials on the history of Belarus and the Slonim region.

Publication date: 16.05.2022.

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