About the joint event of the Belarusian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation and the Belarusian State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art

On June 13, 2024, a tour of the archives building was held for new employees of the Belarusian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation and the Belarusian State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art.

The archives of BGANTD and BGAMLI are located in a historical building dating from 1624 – the former Church of St. Joseph at the Bernardine monastery. The founders are considered to be Krasnoselsky elder Andrei Kensovsky and his brother Yan, who gave the monks a land plot.

After several fires and reconstructions, by the beginning of the 19th century. The monastery complex included: a church, residential buildings, a school, a hospital and other buildings. In 1864, after the closure of the church, it became an Orthodox church, and in 1872 the building was used as an archive for court cases of the Minsk province.

In 1926, the baroque church building was officially recognized as an architectural monument. In the early 1960s. The spacious hall of the church was divided into 5 floors (architect N.V. Baranov). In 1984, the church building was partially reconstructed (architect G. Bosak), and a Baroque shield appeared on the facade.

From November 1991 to the present, two Belarusian State Archives have been operating in the rooms of the church, which is divided into several floors: the Belarusian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation and the Belarusian State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art.

1. Directors of BGAMLI and BGANTD E.A.Makarenko and A.P.Kurakov with archive staff

2. Archive staff before the start of the tour