Turov ethnographic museum

Turov ethnographic museum was founded in 1927 on the basis of school section of history and nature. The founder and first director of the museum was a geography teacher Maxim Emelianovich Bruj. Active participation in the creation of the museum took home the People's librarian Parfen Antonovich Schekotovich. The museum's collection, gathered before the war, included 2000 subjects of archeology, ethnography and life, manuscripts and printed editions. During the Great Patriotic War Museum collection has been completely destroyed. After the end of the war until December 1949 a new museum collection was collected and exhibited in a private house PA Schekotovicha. Polesski Executive Committee decision of 1949 Turovi museum was reopened in 1950. At the initiative of the museum in 1961 at an archaeological site Turow conducted the first large-scale archaeological research Turov detachment of the USSR. The excavations in the ancient city was discovered in 1963 the foundation of the medieval brick church. Currently, the foundation of the church of the XII century is the central exhibit of historical and archaeological complex "Ancient Tour." In July 1963, the museum is a branch of the Gomel Regional Museum. In 1965, the museum was transferred to the balance Zhitkovichy regional department of culture. Contemporary museum collection includes 20, 072 items, of which 11, 726 units of fixed assets (archaeological and ethnographic objects, documents, etc.), 8, 346 units of scientific support fund. Museum has five exposure and one showroom: Antiquities, Ethnography of the Great Patriotic War and nature.