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One of Polotsk residents casually discovered a large stone in the sand, had been brought from a quarry in the Polotsk district. It turned out that the worker in his hands holds the tooth of a mammoth. The best place to store such an interesting item was selected Museum of Local Lore. History of its discovery Leonid Timoshenko told Scientific Staff, giving a tooth to the museum. Mammoths on the territory of Belarus became extinct more than 10 thousand years ago during the last glacial period. The reasons for their extinction is not known.

The Staff Scientists of the Museum of Local Lore developed a program of museum studies for adults "The little-known pages of history of Polotsk". Amateurs of history had already visited the first classes. Customers have learned a lot and saw not only the exhibits in glass cases, but also objects from founds of the museum-reserve. All visitors can relax with a benefit in our museum.

The first separate popular science edition about the Art gallery of National Polotsk Historical Cultural Museum-Reserve “The Art Gallery in Polotsk” has been published recently. It presents the articles on art and the review of the collections which are in the permanent exhibition of the gallery. It is supplied with a compact disk containing the chronicle documentary material about the activity of the gallery since the day of its foundation.
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In August 2009 an extremely interesting collection of the materials, connected with the life and work of a teacher from Polotsk and a local lore expert- Stepan Antonovich Klokov-appeared in the stocks of НPSMRLL. The collection the information about the Honored teacher of the BSSR started last year. The workers of the museum of local lore met Stepan Antonovich’s relatives and former colleagues. In February of 2009 several meetings with the pupils from Polotsk schools were organized and carried out to celebrate the centenary of S.A.Klokov’s birthday.

What were our ancestors’ occupations? What boots and shirts did they wear? What did they decorate their huts with? You can learn this and many other things at museum-pedagogical studies which are held at the Museum of local lore this week.

The senior research worker Gavrilova Slavina Vyachaslavovna welcomes hospitably the pupils of Polotsk schools. Literally from the first minutes of the studies the children start traveling over Polotsk fair. There are so many fascinating things here!

The funds of NPIKMZ have been filled up with a new collection of stage costumes and properties of the People's theatre "Pilgrim" and of the Model youth theatre - studio "Harmony". The dresses of Pushkin times and Egyptian clothers , theatre arms and moneys , jeweiiery, articles of stade design, furniture and masks - lots ofvarious things will help you half-open tre curtain and find yourself in the mysterious world of theatre.

During the forth week of October, museum-pedagogical courses of the series of "My ancient town" took place in the Local History museum. The pupils of schools №№ 1,2,10,16,18 and Polotsk State Gymnasium №1 came to the museum to attend the class "The Princess with three names.

On September, 4th, 2009 was the 150th anniversary of the birth of Bronislav Ignatovich Epimah-Shipila, the famous person of Belarusian national revival at the beginning of the 20th century. He was the professor of St. Petersburg University, the scholar – linguist, the philologist, the active publisher and the propagandist of the Belarusian
book, the educator, after the activity of Francisck Scoryna Bronislav Ignatovich was the creator of the first Belarusian publishing house “The sun will glance in our window” (1906). He was the honorary member of the

Autumn is the beginning of a new school year. And Polotsk museum welcome new visitors.

In September on the basis of the Museum of Local Lore in the limits of the museum pedagogical programme for 3-rd-year pupils there took place the studies on the topic “ Hello, museum!”. The pupils of Polotsk State Gymnasium №3 and Polotsk Secondary Schools № 1, № 2, № 6 and №18 learned the origin of the word “museum”, where the first “ temples of muses” had been opened, when the first museum had appeared in our town.

It has been mentioned before that a new museum is going to be opened in Polotsk – the Museum of the town’s history it will be the 12th museum in our town. Representatives of some Polotsk enterprises were involved into the work of creating its exposition, and these enterprises gave the National Polotsk historical and cultural museum-sanctuary samples of their production.

The reply to this question the pupils of Polotsk schools received during museum-pedagogical studies, which bear the corresponding title. These studies took place in September in the context of the museum-pedagogical programme that is realized on the basis of the museums of National Polotsk historical-cultural museum-reserve.

On September, 25 he met with administration and senior museum specialists of the National Polotsk Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve. The theme of his Presentation was - “Current Trends in Museum Education in US Museums”. Then he visited Polotsk museums.

Polotsk Folk Theater «Piligrim» of City House of Culture was established in 1992. Next 6 years Valentin Nagorny was the director of the new theater.

From 2002 to the present day artistic and stage director of the Polotsk Folk Youth Theater «Piligrim» is Vera Kiseleva. Under her leadership creative young people of Polotsk develop their artistic abilities.

During this time the troupe of «Piligrim» more than once became the winner of various contests of theatrical skill. Professional jury is not left without attention young actors, who also received awards.

In accordance with the "Integrated Program for the Development of Polotsk for 2008-2012, approved by Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus № 647 of 17.12.2007 town, we work on the creation of the Museum of the history of our city.

Two big collections of archeology & numismatics have arrived to funds of Museum-Reserve on June 19th, 2009. They have been transferred by Andrey Buhovetsky.
This inhabitant of Polotsk transfers his finds to reserve not for the first time. The friendship with Andrey Buhovetskiy began in 1980th when he was schoolboy. Andrey together with his brother Alexey has brought archeology subjects to employees of Museum of Local Lore. Much of those things were about 600-800 years.