Gorodok Regional Museum of Local Lore

The Gorodok Regional Museum of Local Lore was established in Gorodok in 1974 and was opened to visitors in 1976. Previously, the museum was located in the building of the former children's library, in 1996 it received a new building. In different years, the director of the museum were: G. S. Orlovsky, L. F. Bondarenko, Z. N. Pleskach, E. E. Uverskaya, T. N. Ivanova, A.N. Felts. The area of the museum is 445 m²: the exposition area is 190 m², the exhibition area is 255 m². There are three exposition and three exhibition halls in the Gorodok Regional Museum of Local Lore.

The department of nature is located in two exhibition halls: information and diorama. In the information hall you can get acquainted with paleontological exhibits, photographs, a map-scheme of the natural environment of the Gorodok region, the Red Book of the Gorodok region and other collections, as well as in the information hall there are three dioramas: “Oakwood. Giant Oak”, “Apocalypse”, “White-Tailed Eagle”.

The diorama hall of the department of nature introduces visitors to five dioramas - "Forest", "Horse swamp", "Meadow. Reservoir”, “Birds on the lake”, “Water chestnut”. The museum has a permanent exhibition "The Hall of Ethnography and Folk Crafts of the Gorodok Region", which consists of four sections: "The Life of a Peasant in the Late 19th - Early 20th Centuries", "Traditional Women's and Men's Crafts", "The Beliefs of Our Ancestors", "The Life of the Residents town and county”.

On the second floor of the museum, changing exhibitions are held in the exhibition halls. In 2018, from January 13 to February 23, an exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Vitebsk region worked in the Gorodok Regional Museum of Local Lore.