Getting ready for a trip to Belarus, you may think of numerous monuments and military museums. And when it comes to the city of Bobruisk, you imagine photos of a majestic fortress from history textbooks. But this city can amaze visitors both with its rich past and the world of contemporary art represented by the collections of Bobruisk Art Museum.

It is not difficult to find the museum. On its right, there is the main landmark of Bobruisk, the famous monument to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. And suddenly, the spacious museum halls welcomely open their doors before you, with the museum masterpieces beckoning you to admire them.

The grand opening of the museum happened in 2012 after a thorough building reconstruction. But the history of its collections started earlier, about half a century before. The first exhibition hall in Bobruisk opened in 1976 and belonged to the Belarusian Union of Artists. Until 2004, it was a branch of the Minsk Palace of Art. After that, it received legal status and became the only independent cultural institution in the visual arts domain. The museum annually hosts several dozen traditional and contemporary exhibitions of paintings, sculpture, graphics, photography, and decorative and applied art. Over 500 different expositions have taken place here. Besides, an art fund was created, which was the main reason for the museum establishment.

The fund collection consists of the works of masters whose lives and art were tightly connected with Bobruisk. The total number is more than 700 exhibits from 1960 to the present. Here, you can see art pieces of People's Artist Georgy Poplavsky and the Honored Artist Ludwig Asetsky, and the younger generation: Zhanna Budeiko, Natalia Marchenko, Irina Kustova, and Vladimir Kontsedailov.

The State Cultural Institution was created in 2009, and after the restoration works, the Art Museum opened to the public.