National Historical Museum of the Republic of Belarus



Conferences

‘Stone and Bronze Age communities in the interfluves of Vistula and Dnepr’ International academic conference.

From March 5 till March 7 2013, the National Historical Museum of the Republic of Belarus housed the International academic conference ‘Stone and Bronze Age communities in the interfluves of Vistula and Dnepr.’ More than 30 researchers from Belarus, Russia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, and Iraq took part in the forum.

Papers of participants concerned following branches of the archaeology:

▪Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Central and East Europe plains;

▪ Interaction of ‘forest’ and central European traditions during the Neolithic;

▪ Cultural changes during the period of transition from Neolithic to Bronze Age.

Within the framework of the conference, the exhibition ‘In the land of hunters, fishers, and gatherers (household activities of population of Northern Belarus from middle Neolithic till early Bronze Age)’ took place, where materials from excavations of Kryvina peat bog at the border of Biešankovičy and Sianno districts, Viciebsk region, were exhibited.

Museum readings in 2013

On November 29 2013, Museum readings dedicated to 105th anniversary of the Minsk Ecclesiastical Historical Archaeological Museum and 90th anniversary of the Byelorussian State Museum took place at the National Historical Museum of the Republic of Belarus.

Reading topics were as follows:

▪ Sources concerning the Museum Affairs in Belarus. First museum collections within the territory of Belarus in times of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

▪ The National Historical Museum of the Republic of Belarus: its history and perspectives.

▪ 1856 Museum of Antiquities in Vilnius as the first Belarusian public museum.

▪ Minsk Ecclesiastical Committee and Historical Archaeological Museum (1908)

▪ Activity of 1921 Museum Commission (Glavmuzey) and 1923 Byelorussian State Museum.

▪ 1923 Byelorussian State Museum and its branches in Viciebsk, Homieĺ, and Mahilioŭ.