The decision to create the Brest Regional Museum of Local Lore was first made in 1940, but the museum did not open because of the outbreak of war. On March 27, 1945, at a meeting of the executive committee of the Brest Regional Council of Workers' Deputies, a decision was made to ask the Council of People's Commissars for permission to organize a historical museum in the city of Brest. On September 14, 1948, the decision of the Brest City Executive Committee handed over to the building of the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross Exaltation of the Church, built in 1856, on Lenin Street, 34. In April 1950, the states of the regional museum of local history were approved, the building was under repair, museum equipment was made, employees assembled over 200 museum items, the first temporary exhibition was created. On June 22, 1957, all the exhibition halls of the museum were opened for the first time in the following sections: nature, history of the region from ancient times to the present. Over the years of painstaking research and gathering, studying the history of the Brest region, participating in archaeological and ethnographic expeditions, many collections have been formed that formed the basis of new expositions and branches. The total exhibition area of the museum and its branches is 3913.8 m2. In 1990, the regional museum of local lore changed its registration. He was allocated a building on K. Marks St., 60, built at the beginning of the 20th century and included in the historical planning and development zone of Brest. After the completion of repair and restoration work on May 6, 1995, the museum of local lore was opened with the exhibition “Relics of the Great Patriotic War” dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany. For 60 years, the museum has been doing a lot of work to study the history of the region. Its funds are widely used by scientists, students, journalists and local historians. It is a methodological center for state and departmental museums of the region. The museum funds contain 166123 items of the main fund and 56907 items of the fund of scientific and auxiliary materials as of 01.01.2013. The museum collection has over 20 collections, some of which are unique. This is an archaeological, numismatic, ethnographic collection, as well as a collection of objects of fine and decorative art. The largest collection is the archaeological. The most interesting objects of the stone and bronze era are the mace of the 2nd millennium BC, stone axes, silicon sickles. Among the Early Iron Age, one can distinguish the iron tip of the spear (VI century - beginning of the V century BC), bronze brooches with ornaments (II - I centuries BC). The most valuable finds of the early Middle Ages are stone idols of the VI - XI centuries, a bone ritual ax with a circular ornament, 5 Dregovichi beads found in burial mounds in the territory of the Kamenets district. A special place in the collection is occupied by the finds of the settlement Berestye (more than 40 thousand items) obtained as a result of excavations conducted in 1968 - 1981. Among them, the boxwood crest with the ancient Slavic alphabet-Cyrillic alphabet and the bone figure of the chess king of the early 13th century are rare. The numismatic collection contains more than 14 thousand items. First arrivals date back to 1950. These were coins of the Russian Empire of 1841 - 1911. In subsequent years, the number of Russian coins increased significantly. The earliest of them date back to the late 14th century. These are coins of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Tver, Suzdal and specific principalities. Of the ancient coins of the collection, the rarest is the sisters of the Roman emperor Gordian III (238 - 244 years of our era). The so-called "Siberian" coins of the period of the reign of Catherine II are also interesting. Of particular interest are the treasures found in the Brest region. The museum has 18 treasures (16 mint and 2 clothing). They entered between 1954 and 1990. Among the treasures is a bronze mortgage board and a box with 21 coins (1 platinum, 2 gold, 12 silver and 6 copper), laid in the foundation of the Brest-Litovsk fortress on June 1, 1836. More than 150 units have a treasure discovered in 1962 near the village of Stradechi in the Brest region. It consists of gold and silver jewelry dating from the 16th - 17th centuries. Among them are 2 silver cups made using the technique of casting, embossing, engraving, gilding, which belong to the group of similar works of the Nuremberg goldsmiths. One cup was made by the German master Hans Beutmüller from 1588 to 1622, has the hallmark of the city of Nuremberg and the nameplate of the master. In 1974, a treasure trove of Roman silver denarii of the 1st century AD, found near the village of Lyschitsy, Brest region, was transferred to the museum. The last coin treasure entered the museum in 2008. These are silver coins of the Russian Empire of the first half of the 19th century, minted in St. Petersburg and Warsaw. The treasure was found in the village of Zburazh, Maloritsky district.