Institution of Culture «Vitebsk Regional Museum»
The funds: archaeological excavations in the Vitebsk region (the product of silicon, bone, horn, leather shoes XII-XIII centuries, birch-bark scroll XIII-XIV centuries, pisaly, decorations made of glass, carnelian, amber, ceramics, stucco and pottery..), Collection natural science, numismatics, sphragistics, porcelain, weapons, ancient books XVII-XVIII centuries., tools and household objects XVIII-XX centuries., personal funds historians and ethnographers Antoni Brodowski, Alexey Sapunov and Vaclav Fyodorovich. . The materials on the activities of political parties in the Vitebsk region, the revolution of 1905-07, the February and the October Revolution, Soviet leaders Mikhail Evstigneev, Semen Krylov, August Bitte etc. A special place is occupied by materials about the Great Patriotic War: exhibits about the underground activities of the Vitebsk regional committee of the Communist Party ( b) b, Vitebsk, Orsha, Lepel underground Obol, Proshkovskoy, Osintorfskoy underground organizations, the release area of the fascist German. invaders in 1944, about the partisan movement in the Vitebsk region - partisan leaflets, newspapers, weapons, awards and personal belongings Minaya Shmyrev Vladimir Lobanok, Daniel Raytseva, Alexei Danukalova. In the town hall there is a permanent exposition "Nature of the Vitebsk region", "Ancient Vitebsk IX - XIV centuries.", "Vitebsk region during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.", "With Fire and Sword", "Found a grandmother's attic" "Treasures of the Vitebsk land."