Posted: 13.09.2021 09:06:00

Geolocation: Minsk

National Historical Museum hosts the Minsk Geolocation. 20th Century Graphics exhibition dedicated to the City Day

Visitors to the show are invited to get acquainted with paintings and graphics from the museum collection which feature well-known places, streets and squares of the capital.

As the museum’s representatives comment, the exhibition is a kind of retrospective of the last 200 years of Minsk's existence when each period is notable for its own significant events: urbanisation, development and military destruction, construction of new residential districts and revival of the historical centre, city holidays and daily routine of Minskers.

Artists captured Minsk in different periods of its history. For example, Viktor Stashchenyuk reconstructs city panoramas and architectural monuments of the early 19th century, while works of Nikolai Duchits present the city’s pre-war view and also depict the period of fascist occupation and destruction. Anatoly Tychina's graphics reflect the boom of the 1950s and 1960s when the capital was built anew after the Great Patriotic War. In turn, Yekaterina Poplavskaya sends us back to the 1970s and 1980s in her works – depicting the urban architecture of those years.