National Historical Museum of the Republic of Belarus



Business Partners

The international company Japan Tobacco International (JTI)

The international company Japan Tobacco international (JTI) and the National Historical Museum of the Republic of Belarus have been actively cooperating since 2010. This year, an agreement aimed at organizing common events for preservation and presentation of the national historical and cultural heritage was concluded.

The partnership with the National Historical Museum has supplemented a number of large-scale international projects supported by the company. Among the vivid examples of the strategic cooperation of JTI with world-class museums, we can cite a long-term support of the State Hermitage and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Russia, the Louvre in France, and the Prado Museum in Spain.

In Belarus, JTI conducts a wide-ranging charity activity aimed at supporting culture and arts, seniors, restoring architectural monuments, and strengthening Japanese-Belarusian cultural ties.

Common projects of the National Historical Museum and JTI were marked by the victory in the competitive nomination ‘The best partnership activity’ at the National Forum ‘Museums of Belarus-2012’.

Thanks to the financial support of the company, a number of projects have been successfully implemented at the National Historical Museum from 2011 till 2014:

• Restoring the 17th century gonfalons, and 18th century icon;

• Publishing Skarby Belarusi (Treasures of Belarus) book series, Rarytėty Natsyi︠a︡nalʹnaha histarychnaha muzei︠a︡ Rėspubliki Belarusʹ (Rarities of the National Historical Museum of the Republic of Belarus) album, ‘Muzeĭny vesnik’ (Museum Bulletin) journal issue, and monograph Knihi i knihazbory kutseinskaha Bohai︠a︡ŭlenskaha manastyra ŭ si︠a︡rėdzine XVII st. (Books and the Library of Kuciejna Epiphany Monastery in mid-18th century) by Yury Lauryk;

•Creating historical reconstruction models of Jogaila and Vytautas for coming exhibition;

• holding exhibitions: ‘Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania’ (2012), ‘Precious patterns’ (2012), ‘Treasures of Ukraine’ (2013), ‘Belarus and its Neighbours’ (2013), ‘Bits and Pieces Between Life and Death’ (2014), ‘Joseph Goshkevich: diplomat, scientist, orientalist’ (2014);

• purchasing new items for the museum’s collection: the Lithuania map from the early 17th-century atlas by Gerardus Mercator, 12th-13th cc. incensory with the effigy of Christ, late 19th-century Bialyničy Icon of the Mother of God, and others;

• strengthening the museum’s technical basis

Japan Tobacco International (JTI) is a member of the Japan Tobacco Group of Companies (JT), a leading international tobacco product manufacturer. JTI has eight world-renowned cigarette brands: Winston, Mild Seven, Camel, Benson & Hedges, Silk Cut, Sobranie, Glamour, and LD. JTI headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. JTI operates in 120 countries. Further information can be found at www.jti.com

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