Polotsk National Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve

Polotsk National Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve is a unique historical area where its monuments are being preserved, studied, restored and adapted for museum expositions. Some of the architectural monuments house the museums&expositions: the Sophia Cathedral (11 —18th centuries), one of the buildings of the former Jesuit college (18th century), Lutheran church (1888), Brethren School (18th century), house in Voikova Street,1 and Nizhne-Pokrovskaya Street, 46 (19th — beginning of the 20th century), Peter&the Great House (1692), the Water Tower (1953). Altogether, Reserve includes 11 museums. Museum-Reserve itself including zone of preservation, zone with a special regime of construction, existing and future museums is the key to turn historical Polotsk into a museum town.