i am the director brest regional kryvechesky museum our mission is to preserve historical memory for the sake of future generations. our regional museum was founded in 1950, although there is some evidence that the creation of the museum began even before the beginning of the great patriotic war. already in the fortieth year, the collection of exhibits for the kryvechesky museum began, a building was allocated, but everything was prevented, of course, by the beginning of the great patriotic war, so after the end of the war, in the fiftieth year, our museum began to function as a new cultural institution museum type. in the fifty-seventh year the first exhibition was formed, it told about the defenders of the brest fortress. the museum was located in the cross-exaltation building of the former cross-exaltation church existed there until 1991 and gradually the krivetsky museum acquired a number of branches i can say with complete confidence that this is a unique museum both in its concept and in the content that they will inflict on our museum 120. people, we store more than 200,000 ite