Polotsk National Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve

Cultural institution of scientific research and education "Polotsk National Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve" is a unique historical area where its monuments are being preserved, studied, restored and adapted for museum exhibitions. Some of the architectural monuments house the museums’ exhibitions: Sophia Cathedral (11th–18th centuries), one of the buildings of the former Jesuit College (18th century), Lutheran Church (1888), Brethren School (18th century), houses on Voikov Street,1 and Nizhne-Pokrovskaya Street, 46 (19th – beginning of the 20th century), Peter's the Great House (1692), the Water Tower (1953). Altogether, Reserve includes 11 museums.

All immovable (architectural and archaeological) and movable (over 100 000 items) monuments are included into museum collection of Polotsk National Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve.

Museum-Reserve itself including preservation zone, zone with a special regime of construction, existing and future museums is the key to turn historical Polotsk into a museum city.

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