Ivyevsky Museum of National Cultures.

The Ivyevsky Museum of National Cultures is the only museum in Belarus that tells about the diversity of national cultures in the country. The museum's exposition includes materials, documentary photographs and objects of cultural, ethnic, confessional and local heritage of the region and the whole world.

Each of the halls is intriguing and different from each other.

The first of them, dedicated to the history of the indigenous population of the Ivy region, tells about the oldest settlements on the Ivy land, the events of the Middle Ages, representatives of famous families who once owned the city. It reveals interesting information about the Arian Academy, printing house, traditional culture, holidays of the local population and their way of life. Among the exhibits you can see, for example, the "kufar" of the beginning of the XX century, musical instruments made by local craftsmen, towels, a bowl. Among the authentic objects are ornate Gothic and Romanesque styles, and an imshal – a liturgical book. Perhaps the main feature of this hall, which will not go unnoticed, is the batleyka – an exact copy of the Yelensky nativity scene of the XVIII century. She's acting.

"Belarusian Tatars" is the second exhibition hall, which introduces the history of the appearance of Muslim Tatars on Belarusian lands, the history of the local community. In the very center of the hall there is a miniature model of the Iviev Mosque, which has not ceased its activities since its opening in 1882. Here, visitors can see the imam's clothes, authentic items from the mosque itself – candlesticks, the spire of the minaret of the 1920s. The originals of sacred books placed under glass, handwritten sources, for example, the 1892 lyagi, the handwritten hamail of 1931 by the local author Suleiman Rafalovich, will not go unnoticed. On the wall there are mugirs – excerpts from the Koran, embroidered and painted by ivyovchanka Emilia Shabanovich, as well as black-and-white photographs of representatives of the Tatar community of the city. It is symbolic that the window of this room overlooks the city mosque.

The Belarusian Jews Exhibition Hall opened its doors in November 2019. This is a small shtetl (the place) in the museum, the atmosphere emphasizes the significant influence of the Jewish people on the culture of Belarus. In a small but very cozy hall, which is crowned by a luminous Star of David under the ceiling, you can see the bimah (elevation in the synagogue), from which the rabbi, as if alive, reads the Torah. Miniature Jewish houses look very realistic, peering into which you seem to be transported to the real street of the city of the past years. You can even look into the windows of the houses. In one of them, a woman prepares for Shabbat, the seventh day of the week (day of peace and joy). The second one houses David Bender's barbershop. Between them is Bernardinskaya Street, realistically depicted on the wall in the 1920s and 30s. There are many authentic objects in the glass cases: a Hanukkah menorah, a poison (a pointer for reading the Torah), a kippah (a man's headdress), tefillin (an element of the Jewish prayer vestments), kidush glasses, a ner Tamid lamp of the second half of the XIX century.