The Free Belarus Museum and the Centre for Belarusian Culture in Białystok have signed a cooperation agreement!

On 5 November, the Free Belarus Museum and the Centre for Belarusian Culture in Białystok, represented by their respective heads, Natallia Zadziarkouskaya and Anatol Vapa, signed an official agreement establishing open-ended cooperation between the two institutions.

The Centre for Belarusian Culture in Białystok is the first partner organisation with which our cooperation has been formalised in an official document. This is an important milestone for our museum. The agreement not only opens up new opportunities to strengthen the institutional capacity of both organisations, but will also contribute to the promotion and development of Belarusian culture in Poland.

The agreement covers a broad range of areas of cooperation — from organising joint cultural events, including exhibitions, concerts, festivals and competitions, to joint educational and public outreach activities, projects promoting the Belarusian language, and the exchange of resources. This includes the possibility of sharing premises, collection-related equipment and accumulated materials in pursuit of the organisations’ statutory objectives.

We are confident that the agreement will also help raise awareness of the unique cultural heritage of the Belarusian national minority in Poland, strengthen the integration of the Belarusian diaspora, and create new opportunities to support Belarusian artists and civic initiatives in exile.

We thank our partners for their trust and commitment to fruitful cooperation!

The Museum is preparing to sign further agreements with other cultural and civic institutions in Poland and across Europe. We are steadily building a broad network of partnerships to make the Belarusian voice heard more strongly.

As part of the project “Free Belarus Museum: Strengthening Capacity for Belarusian Culture”. The project is supported by the ArtPower Belarus programme and funded by the European Union.