MINSK, 31 August (BelTA) - An exposition on the history and culture of Minsk Oblast will be opened at the regional museum in Molodechno in the run-up to the Dazhynki-2011 nationwide harvest festival, BelTA learnt from the museum director Taisia Lenkevich. The exposition will tell about the first settlements in the region, different historical periods: the Principality of Polotsk, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Russian Empire. One section will be devoted to the 1812 war. The first half of the 19th century will have its section too. In addition, the exposition will feature items dedicated to culture and ethnic minorities of the region. The museum will showcase the unique items unearthed during archaeological excavations in the territory of Minsk Oblast: the golden rings of the Dregovichy tribe of the 12th -13th centuries, items made of glass, leather and bone dating back to the 11th – 12th centuries, tiles of the 16th -17th centuries and the coins which were part of the buried treasure found in the village of Moroski, Molodechno District, in 1971 (all in all, 14 buried treasures were discovered in Minsk Oblast). The exposition will also feature the 18th-century Slutsk belt donated by the State Historical Museum in Moscow in 1968, old books printed in 1646-1789 in Cologne, Nesvizh, Vilnius, Warsaw, Sandomierz, Uneva, Moscow, documents of the 17th century written in the old Belarusian language using Latin alphabet, a letter from Vilnius University to Zorian Dolenge-Khodakovsky asking for assistance in the collection of antique items of the Slavic peoples (1818). A collection of peasant tools, folk costumes and woven items, the work of craftsmen will be also on display. The most spectacular part of the exposition will be a recreated living room of a gentry house. The furniture typical of the 19th century has already been purchased. In July 2009, the Minsk Regional Museum in Molodechno turned 50. Every year it arranges about 40 exhibitions and 200 lectures and museum studies, more than 350 excursions. The museum attendance is more than 20,000 per year. The museum exhibits the materials from the collections of museums of Minsk Oblast and the leading museums of the country, namely the National Art Museum, National Museum of History and Culture, the Museum of Modern Art, Literature Museum, the Kupala Literary and the Memorial Museum of Yakub Kolas, the Museum of Nature and Environment. For the past eight years the Minsk Regional Museum has been actively cooperating with the embassies of Japan and China in Belarus. The museum seeks to introduce the Belarusians to the history, culture and traditions of the Far East countries. The museum has 36 collections featuring more than 47,000 items (the main stocks) and 28,000 items (the scientific auxiliary stocks). БЕЛТА
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