State Literary Museum of Janka Kupala, Literary museum in central Minsk, Belarus

The State Literary Museum of Janka Kupala occupies a purpose-built structure at Janka Kupala Street 4, erected in 1959 on the site of the poet's house, which burned in 1941. Architects I. Valadzko and V. Valchak designed it. The permanent exhibition "Shliakhi" (2014, designer Isaak Davidovich) fills eight halls of 325.2 m², with a separate 74.4 m² exhibition space, and includes a holographic theatre projecting the poet's image with a recording of his voice.

The institution was established in 1944 and relocated to a building on a street named after the poet. This location was chosen on land where the original residence had been destroyed during World War II.

The museum's name honours Janka Kupala, the pen name of Ivan Lutsevich, a classic of Belarusian literature. Its collection holds over 1,000 books from the Vilnius reading library of Boris Danilovich, where Kupala once worked as a librarian. Recordings preserve his voice, including a 1940 speech at a Moscow commemoration of Adam Mickiewicz.

The museum stands at Janka Kupala Street 4, on the site of the poet's house that burned in 1941; the present building, by architects I. Valadzko and V. Volchak, was purpose-built and received the museum on 9 November 1959. The permanent exhibition occupies eight halls covering 325.2 m², with a further 74.4 m² for temporary shows. Look for the holographic theatre, where the poet's image is projected with a recording of his own voice.

The museum's first director, Vladislava Lutsevich, was Janka Kupala's wife. She gathered manuscripts, photographs, first editions and personal belongings of the poet and his circle, and these items formed the core of the museum's collections. The poet's own house burned in the first days of the war, destroying his archive and library.