Abandoned Land

The exhibition project "Abandoned Land", timed to coincide with the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident, begins at the National Historical Museum of the Republic of Belarus on April 26, 2021. The project was prepared jointly with the Belarusian Telegraph Agency, the Museum of Ancient Belarusian Culture of the Center for Research of Belarusian Culture, Language and Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the Museum of Fire-Fighting and Rescue Affairs of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus, the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus, the Polesie State Radiation and Environmental Reserve.

At 01:23:47 on April 26, 1986, an explosion occurred at the 4th power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, 12 kilometers from the southern border of Belarus, which completely destroyed the reactor and became the largest accident in the history of nuclear power.

Numerous photographs and archival materials will tell about the accident, its consequences for Belarus, their liquidation and activities to restore the territory, about the fate of people whose lives turned out to be connected with the Chernobyl theme.

The finds of the ethnographic expeditions of the Institute of Art History, Ethnography and Folklore of the Academy of Sciences of the 1990s to the regions affected by the accident will demonstrate the life and culture of now defunct villages.

At the exhibition you can see photographs of the flora and fauna of the Polesie State Radiation-Ecological Reserve, which is the habitat of rare and endangered species.

Also, the exhibition "Abandoned Land" will feature works by artists Georgy Poplavsky, Viktor Shmatov and Sergei Davidovich-Zosin.

The "Abandoned Land" exhibition runs from April 26 to May 23, 2021.

The National Historical Museum of the Republic of Belarus

Minsk, 12 K. Marx st.

Daily from 11.00 to 19.00

Tel. (017) 374-83-22