Vileika ethnographic museum

Vileika Museum was established by the decree of the Central Committee of the PBC on July 30, 1982, the first exhibition was created in 1985, on May 7 this year, the museum opened its doors to visitors. Vileika Museum is located in a building which is a monument of the civil architecture of the early twentieth century. The total number of objects in the museum's 2010 totaled 24,092 units.

Expositions reflect the history and culture of Vileika region from ancient times until the second half of the twentieth century. Museum preserves archaeological excavations of settlements VI millennium BC and burial mounds and millennium The museum exhibits: Numismatic Collection, including coin treasures XVII century collection of documents from the church archives, objects of ethnography. Among the rarities are allocated treasure silicon knives Neolithic temple rings, jewelry X-XII a., telescope and iron core of Napoleon's army, badge Vileika assistant city mayor 1892. The exhibition contains works by the artist Ivan Zankovich, master Peter Straw Cooking, woodcarving masters Vladimir Subach.

Based Vileika museum works studio Vileika folk rituals and traditions "Landscape" - the national amateur team. Studio conducts ethnographic expedition in collecting folk ritual and festive songs write legends Vileyschiny collects household items, weaving. Participants in the studio, who visited dozens of villages Vileika District recorded a large number of wedding, midsummer, Peter, spring, Fall et al. songs that they sang for centuries our ancestors. Based on the findings of the collective studio Vileika museum has been developed and successfully the rite Vileika traditional wedding "Kiss - in Belarusian."

In 1997, according to the decision Vileika executive committee in a separate building open showroom named Nicodemus Silivanovich (1834-1919), Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, painting, native Vileyschiny. Almost every month there opens new exhibition: artists, craftsmen, exhibitions from the collections of various museums. The exhibition hall is constantly exhibited copy of a picture of Nicodemus Silivanovich "Soldier with a Boy" (1866), the original of the National Art Museum of Belarus.

Vileika museum organized the project "Historical puteshestvinichki" which takes place in the form of training games for kindergarten and elementary school students and in the form of lectures, classes for high school students. His main goal: through entertainment games throughout the year to introduce and give an introduction to the Belarusian culture, traditions and rituals, arts and crafts, the Belarusian folklore.

ART-Vileika project was developed as a cultural and educational project of the modern Belarusian art. During the year, every Saturday of the month are lectures to a wide range of visitors facilities exhibitions in the question about contemporary visual art in Belarus (contemporary photography, painting, performances, animation, etc.). in an accessible and interesting for both spectators form.