On June 23, 1995, the Orsha Ethnographic Museum "Mill" was opened.

June 23, Minsk / Anna Gromyko - BELTA /. 15 years ago, on June 23, 1995, the Orsha Ethnographic Museum "Melnytsa", a branch of the Museum Complex of History and Culture of Orsha, was opened to visitors. This museum is located in the historical center of the city, between the Dnieper and Orshitsa rivers, in a water mill building, which is a monument of industrial architecture of the early 20th century. The main goal of the museum exhibition concept is to reflect the richest material and spiritual heritage of the Orsha region in the 2nd half of the 19th - early 20th century. It is located on two floors. The first floor houses the exhibition "Our Daily Bread", and the second floor houses an exhibition of traditional crafts of Orsha. The museum presents the agricultural tools of a farmer, devices for processing flax, a rich collection of weaving, including bedspreads, ritual towels, and tablecloths of various decorations, colors, and techniques, sets of original authentic Belarusian traditional costumes, as well as pottery, Kopys tiles, and items of modern folk decorative and applied art.-0-