A meeting with students of BGUKI in the Belarusian State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art

On May 4, 2023, students of the 3rd year of the «Library and Information Activities» course of the Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts visited the Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art within the framework of the «Archives – School» republican campaign organized by the Department of Archives and Records Management of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus.

Leading researcher Viktor Zhibul led a tour of the Victory Day exhibition «Towards the Sun», the title of which was given to the collection of the same name by Petrus Brovka, published in 1943. The exhibition presents books and periodicals of the 1940s, as well as works of art by Ivan Akhremchik, Valentin Volkov, and Sergey Gorodetsky, devoted to the liberation of Minsk and Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Leading archivist Natalya Pustilnik-Marchuk gave a lecture to the students about the use of archival documents of personal origin in the practice of the archive-museum work, told about the work of researchers in the reading room. Leading archivist Natalya Mizon, using the example of the exhibition «Man with a Fiery Heart» (for the 120th anniversary of the director, teacher and actress Lyubov Mozalevskaya), spoke about the use of books with children’s inscriptions in the exhibition activities of the archive-museum.