Belarusian National History Museum has a long history of difficult. Year of the museum is considered to be 1957, because during the war, almost all the museum collections were looted. The museum is housed in a building built in the years 1903-1905 for the branch of the State Bank of Russia.

The first attempt to create a national historical museum in Minsk was made in 1908. With the support of the Orthodox Church Museum was created by the Minsk Church and the Archaeological Committee. In 1912, the Minsk City Council funded and Minsk Society of Naturalists, ethnography and archeology established the Minsk City Museum, contains five sections: archeological, scientific, historical, artistic and industrial, ethnographic.

After the revolution in 1920, the museum was renamed into Minsk Regional Museum and supplemented by funds Minsk Church and the Archaeological Museum, evacuated during the First World War in Ryazan. In 1923 the museum was transformed into the Belarusian State Museum, where the library was also created.

Unfortunately, after World War II the collection of funds had to start again. In 1957 the museum was named the Belarusian State Museum of Local History, 1992 - The National Museum of History and Culture, in 2009, the museum received the final name of Belarusian National History Museum.

Today it is the largest history museum in Belarus and one of the most visited museums in Minsk. It has three buildings and a capacity of more than 370 items, presented in 40 sections. The museum's exhibits include a huge time span, from the primitive communal system, and the first human settlements to the present day.

Here are kept rare treasure coins, national, everyday and ceremonial costumes and dresses, household items, religious cult objects, the collection of weapons of all time, craft, a large exhibition of jewelry and many other interesting things.