May, 18 is the International Museum Day, and dedicated to the holiday, the National Statistics Committee announced the information about the most visited museums of our country. The first place is given to the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, which with a large margin leads in the list. Over the past year, it was visited more than half a million times - 559.6 thousand. The second place is occupied by the Memorial Complex "Brest Fortress ", which was visited by 423,300 people in 2016. The third leader is the Nesvizh National Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve with 412.4 thousand visitors.

In addition to the above, in the top there are:

• the main Gomel site - Gomel palace and park ensemble (325 thousand people)

• the Castle of "Mir" (285 thousand people)

• the Memorial complex of "Khatyn" (235.2 thousand people).