Branch of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus Museum of V.K. Byalynitsky-Birulya is located in Mogilev in a building - a monument of residential architecture in the late Baroque style. XVII – beginning XVIII centuries

From 1815 to 1917, the building housed the Mogilev Noble Assembly. From archival documents it is known that representatives of the Byalynitsky-Birulya family applied to the Assembly to confirm their nobility.

The decision to open a branch of the State Art Museum of the BSSR in Mogilev was made in 1977. Since the house on the Krynki estate near Belynichi, in which the artist was born, was not preserved, a two-story mansion, an architectural monument of the late century, was chosen to house the museum. XVII century In 1977 – 1979 The building was being reconstructed, during which the 3rd floor was added. Memorial Museum of V.K. Byalynitsky-Birulya as a branch of the State Art Museum of the BSSR was opened on December 24, 1982.

By the time the branch opened, the art museum had in its collections about five hundred paintings by V.K. Byalynitsky-Birulya, collected by the director of the State Art Gallery, Honored Artist of the BSSR E.V. Aladova. For the exhibition of the Mogilev Museum V.K. Byalynitsky-Birulya, unique exhibits were selected: plastic objects, decorative and applied arts, furniture, personal belongings, donated by the artist’s widow Elena Alekseevna.

The permanent exhibition of the museum "The Art of V.K. Byalynitsky-Biruli of the first half of the twentieth century", housed in 4 halls on the second floor, is designed to give an idea of ​​the life and work of the artist. Its museum space forms in the viewer an understanding of the characteristic features of the artist’s artistic style, gives an idea of ​​the main stages of his life, which occurred in two eras - the time of the existence of the Russian Empire and the USSR. The exhibition presents paintings by V.K. Byalynitsky-Biruli - large canvases and sketches, personal belongings of the artist, which were previously located at his dacha "Chaika" in the Tver province and in his Moscow house - awards, works of plastic art and decorative and applied art. A significant part of the exhibition is represented by works created during the Soviet era. The exhibition includes the paintings “The Beginning of Spring” (1910), “Blue Spring” (1942), “Spring Has Come” (1951), sketches depicting monuments of Russian wooden architecture – “The Nine-Domed Wooden Church”, “The Village of Conception” (all – 1944).

Memorial exhibition of the artist V.K. Byalynitsky-Biruli, located in the halls of the second floor. In the exhibition halls of the 1st and 3rd floors there are temporary exhibitions, lectures, creative meetings, and master classes.