Great Patriotic War Museum

The full horrors of World War II are highlighted here. There is a detailed model of a Nazi concentration camp that will make the hairs on the back of your neck rise. The camp was known as the Maly Trostenets death camp, the largest in Europe after Auschwitz and Maijdanek where over 200,000 died. It also has a large section devoted to the Belarusian Partisan resistance in Belarus. At the end of your tour you get to see a huge bust of V.I. Lenin. Be sure to check out the tanks and other military vehicles out behind the museum. It is possible to get the tour in English if you make a reservation.

First Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’’ Party Museum Skoriny 31a, tel. (+375-17) 236 68 47. Open 10:00 - 18:00. Closed Wed. Free admission. Founded in 1923, this museum was the site of the first, what became the Bolshevik Party, congress in 1898. The building was destroyed during World War II (1941-1945), but reconstructed in 1948. The Museum itself is not that large, but the implications of what took place there are.