The “Art Museum” was opened on May 17, 2002 by decision of the Brest Regional Executive Committee No. 206 of 03/13/2000 “On the Creation of an Art Museum” in the southern barracks of the Brest Fortress. In order to prepare the building for the museum from spring 1999 to December 2001, restoration work was carried out.
The branch was based on a collection of fine and decorative art of the Brest Regional Museum of Local Lore. Formation of the collection began in 1951 and continues to the present, the art of Brest artists is most widely represented in it. The total area of the museum is 1670 m2, the area of ten exhibition halls - 1100 m2, two exhibition - 140 m2. The exposition chronologically covers the entire period of existence of the Brest Regional Organization of the Union of Artists of Belarus and allows us to present the path of development of the fine art of the Brest region in the second half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries. The exposition of the work of the Brest artist Anastasia Fetisova from the series "Secrets of the Old City" with views of Berestye, portraits of political and statesmen of the Middle Ages opens the exhibition. In the same hall, a model of the city of Brest of the XVII-XVII centuries, exhibited by students of the Brest Polytechnic College under the project of A. I. Fetisova, is exhibited. The second hall presents the works of Belarusian artists dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. Among them, a special place is occupied by paintings about the heroic defense of the Brest Fortress. Three rooms are dedicated to painting and sculpture. Here are the works of artists of the Brest region, many of which are recognized masters not only in their homeland, but also abroad. This is P.A. Danelia, N.D. Churabo, I.Ya. Fetisov, E.S. Kufko. This section of the exposition ends with a creative search for young artists. Graphic art occupies an exposition of two halls. The pride of the collection is the work of P.Yu. Tatarnikov, G.I. Vyalya, academician of graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts of Belarus L.B. Alimova. The self-portrait “Born in a Mask” (1992) is exhibited. Alimov, for which he was awarded the title of "Person of the Year in Art" by the International Biographical Center (Cambridge, UK). A separate exposition presents the decorative and applied art of professional masters: A.F. Gurshchenkova, S.V. Vyal, D.N. Vymorkova, N.E. Krivitskaya, V.I. Logvin, spouses Ryabov, V.I. Marchuk, M.B. Knyazeva, artist - jeweler N.P. Kuzmich, who recreated the relic of the Belarusian people lost during the war years - the Cross of Euphrosyne of Polotsk.