Museums in Minsk house the best visual and literary artworks of the last centuries.  Visit the National Arts Museum of the Republic Belarus located at Lenina Street. Having housed in the beginning of the Twentieth century a great collecton that disappeared upon the Nazi occupation of the city, today its collection include works of Modern and Ancient Belarussian art (paintings, sculptures, decorative arts and drawings), old printed bokks from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and Russan Art from the 18th to the 20th centuries.

The Museum of Great Patriotic War located in Octyabrskaya Square boasts of making its way from one-sided "The Soviets have defeated the Nazi" approach that was established there since Soviet Times towards more equal representation of the parties at war. Thus the German handweapons will not be piled up in some dusty corner but will be displayed beside the Soviet pieces. Moreover, new tours will take you to the vaults with the specialists showing you the authentic guns and cold weapons and telling stories.