Musée 39 - 45

The Musée 39 - 45 contains objects, weapons, equipment, civilian clothing, and military uniforms dating from the Second World War. Founded by military collectors Denis Barbe and Christophe Deschodt, the museum presents thousands of individual artifacts; more than 120 museum mannequins are displayed as personnel from numerous armed forces, equipped with period uniforms and weaponry and displayed in wartime situations. Demonstrating the international scope of the conflict, the museum aims to represent the realities of warfare faced by soldiers of different nations.     

Stalin Line

The Historical and Cultural Complex “Stalin line” is 26 km from the Minsk and 6 km from Zaslavl town. The "Stalin line” was founded on 60th anniversary of soviet people Victory in the Great Patriotic war (WWII) and it was opened on the 30th of June 2005 in memory of soldiers who defended Minsk in 1941. The main museum exposition is related to first days of the Great Patriotic war. “Stalin line” is the chain of defensive installations along the former USSR frontier from Karelian Isthmus to the shores of Black sea.

Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War

The Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War was the world's first museum to tell the story of the bloodiest war of the 20th century, and the only one in Belarus created during the years of Nazi occupation. 

The museum first opened shortly after the liberation of Minsk from the Nazi invaders, on 25 October 1944, making it the first World War II museum to open during the course of the war. It moved to its current location in 1966.

War Childhood Museum

 

Rising from the crowd-sourced book War Childhood and championing the principles and practices of social entrepreneurship, the independent, youth-led War Childhood Museum has garnered recognition as the world’s only museum focused exclusively on childhoods that have been affected by war.

Memorial Democràtic de Catalunya

The mission of Memorial Democràtic is the recovery, commemoration and promotion of democratic memory in Catalonia (1931-1980). This historical period encompasses the Second Republic, the Civil War, the Franco dictatorship and the transition to democracy. The Democratic Memorial emphasizes the recovery of victims' memory for ideological, conscientious, religious or social reasons, as well as the repression perpetrated by the Franco dictatorship on individuals and groups (including language and Catalan culture), exile and deportation.