Motol Folk Arts Museum

Motol has long been rich in his talents. The Motolyans preserved their original culture, did not let it get lost in the centuries, and have brought it to this day. To preserve this wealth, a folk art museum was opened in 1995.
Today, the museum is one of the most important tourist sites in the region.
Eight exhibition halls of the museum reveal to the visitors the regional peculiarities of the material and spiritual culture of Western Polesye: history and peasant life, crafts, agriculture, flax processing, weaving, clothing, and rituals.
The museum has rich collections of weaving, embroidery, plaiting, clothing, pottery, cooper work and other crafts.
The Motolsk Folk Art Museum offers visitors a number of interactive programs. For a young audience: a cycle of museum-pedagogical classes has been developed under the general title “At the Gastiakh at Granny Alena's”. For an adult visitor, a ritual excursion "Long Live Guk" is offered on a year-round calendar cycle; lectures-excursions "Vaselny loaf", "Tretsi zen vasella. Aposhnyaya vyaselnaya vyachera "," Prydany ". The folklore and ethnographic theater "Motolskiya Susedzi" brings a special flavor to the museum programs.
Each visitor can become a participant in the creation of a ceremonial wedding loaf, lead a Kupala round dance, dance, dance to live folk music at Motol assemblies, listen to a funny story from the life of Polesie and much more.