Great Patriotic War Museum in Minsk

The Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War is located in the center of Minsk.

8 Pobeditelei Avenue

You can get to the museum by buses: No. 1, 29, 44, 69, 73, 91, 136, 163 (station Muzey Velikoy Otechestvennoy Voyny).

The tickets cost Br9, Br4.50 for school students.

• Tuesday-Saturday: from 10:00 to 17:30
• The museum is closed on Monday, national holidays.

The museum has dedicated over 3,000m2 to over 8,000 exhibits that tell the story of the Great Patriotic War. There are about 145,000 rarities in the museum’s storage. They were collected during military operations in Eastern Europe and Germany and were presented by embassies of various countries in time of peace.

The exhibits are divided into 28 collections and showcased in ten themed halls:

• World and the war;
• World before and in the first years of World War II;
• Road of the war;
• Beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Defense in Belarus in summer 1941. The battle of Smolensk. The battle of Moscow of 1941-1942;
• Turning point of the war. The Soviet home front;
• Nazi occupation regime on the territory of Belarus in 1941-1944;
• Partisan movement and anti-fascist underground resistance in Belarus. Participation of Soviet people in European resistance movements of 1941-1945;
• Liberation of Belarus. The defeat of the Nazi Germany, its allies, and the militarist Japan;
• Belarus after the liberation. The years 1944-1950. Memory of the war;
• Heirs of the Great Victory.

Visitors of the museum can book general and thematic tours for groups (up to 25 people). Prices for group tours vary from Br10 to Br25. Apart from that, the museum offers individual consultations; access to the archive, photo and video materials; simulated gun shooting.

Visitors can use audio guides in Russian, Belarusian, English, German, Spanish and Chinese.