Museum of Belarusian Folk Art, Folk art museum in Raŭbičy, Minsk District, Belarus

The Museum of Belarusian Folk Art occupies the former Krestogorsk Catholic church, a stone building of 1862, on the grounds of the Raubichi Olympic sports complex about 20 km from Minsk. A rectangular extension added behind the apse by architect V. N. Aladov holds extra exhibition space and service rooms. Inside are textiles, costumes, ceramics, carved wood and straw work from the 16th to the early 20th century.

The first church on the site was built in 1650 after a local icon of the Virgin Mary was said to have protected the nobleman Lukash Khalyava during a storm. The stone church was consecrated in 1858 and completed in 1862, then converted to an Orthodox Dormition church in 1866 and used until the early 1930s. By the 1970s the building was over 80% lost and slated for demolition; a letter from museum director Elena Aladova to Communist Party leader Pyotr Masherov saved it. Restoration under architect L. V. Pavlova added a rectangular wing at the apse, and the museum opened in 1979.

The museum occupies the former Krestogorsk church, built in 1862 and later consecrated as an Orthodox Dormition church. Its name comes from a local icon of the Virgin, said to have protected the nobleman Lukash Khalyava during a thunderstorm, which prompted the first church here in 1650.

The museum occupies the former Krestogorsk church inside the Raubichi Olympic sports complex, about 20 km from Minsk. The building was reconstructed for the museum, which opened in 1979; a rectangular extension added behind the apse holds extra exhibition space and service rooms.

Among the exhibits are tsar's gates from the late 18th to early 20th century woven from straw, with coloured cloth set into squares to imitate precious stones. Only three such artefacts survive in Belarus, and the sources record no analogues anywhere else in the world.