Pinkovichi. Yakub Kolas Literary and Local History Museum.

The museum opened in 1962. But then it was just one small room. And already in 1990, the entire Kolosov school, as it is called in the village, was given over to a museum. Therefore, it is believed that the official opening date is November 11, 1990.

The organizer and head of the museum is Ivan Iosifovich Kalosha. It is located in the renovated school building where the People's writer of Belarus Yakub Kolas worked. The museum occupies 4 rooms, which houses about 1000 exhibits.

These are books by J. Kolas, Belarusian writers, photographs, portraits, letters, household items, clothes, shoes of that time, numismatics and more.

The museum's exposition consists of the following sections:

·                    “Minulae Pinkavichay. The Xialyan hut”;

· “I am.Kolas u Pinkavichah”;

· “I am.Kolas u Pinsku”;

·                    “Pinkavichy sennya”.

The profile of the museum is literary and local history. About 100 excursions are held annually. The main topics of which are: "Ya.Kolas na Pinschyn", "Ya.Kolas i Belarusskaya litaratura”, “Litaratura Pinshchyna", “Eternal memory of the people", “Skezhkami paeta", “History of the adnago expansion".

In 2017, the Yakub Kolas Literary and Local History Museum was awarded the title of "national".

Next to the entrance to the museum there is a memorial sign in honor of the American traveler Louise Arner Boyd, who during one of her expeditions explored the way of life and culture of the Belarusian Polesie. As a result of the expedition, many photographs were taken, which subsequently revealed this distinctive region to the whole world.

Louise was born in 1887 in the USA. At the age of 31, she bravely traveled to Europe to fight the flu pandemic. The woman worked there as an ordinary nurse. A year later, she received an inheritance, which she spent on research and expeditions.

Interesting facts about Louise Boyd:

· The first female member of the American Geographical Society.

· For exploring the Arctic and Greenland, she was called the "Queen of Ice" and "Lady of the Arctic".

· Organized a search for Roald Amundsen, who disappeared in the Barents Sea area. She received the Order of Norway for this.

· I did a special task for the US authorities: I investigated the magnetic field of the North Pole.

· At the age of 67, she was the first woman to visit the North Pole.

In 1934, Louise Boyd participated in the International Congress of Geographers in Warsaw. After him, the researcher went to Pinsk Polesie.

In Pinsk, the researcher was impressed by the fair. "The city stands at a crossroads. People came and met here from all the outskirts, who were separated by tens of kilometers of water. Numerous peasant boats were adapted not only for fishing, but also for transporting livestock and hay. For centuries it has been the main transport of the region. " - the traveler wrote in her notes.

Finally, Boyd began her journey through the waterways of Polesie. She wrote in her diary: "Swamps are usually described as something extremely flat and monotonous, which I didn't see here because my main target was the locals. Living on or among waterways, they create a special ethnic core that distinguishes these people from the rest."

During the trip, Boyd took about 700 pictures. She photographed local residents, huts, churches, stables, haystacks, fishing gear. She published 110 photos in a photo album a year later, when she returned to New York. The famous researcher discovered Polesie in all its originality to the American world.