Lelchitsy Raion Local History Museum

The museum was founded on 25 January 1990. At present, the museum funds include over 3,500 items (2012), which present the history of homeland (from the Middle Stone Age and to present times). For years, the museum set important collections of archeology, numismatics, faleristics, traditional clothing, labour tools and objects of peasant life of Ubortskoye Polesye, documents and photos of veterans and famous countrypeople, etc. The permanent exposition consists of the following sections and halls: "Ancient History", the Ethnography Hall "Belarusian Hut", "The Nature of Our Land", the hall dedicated to the Great Patriotic War and the internationalist soldiers and the exhibition hall. The main activities are aimed at promoting the history and culture of homeland, at educating and upbringing children and young people, at preserving and popularizing the traditions and rituals of the region.