The Mir Castle Complex Museum was founded on 1 April 2011. It is a museum of the Republican Subordination. Mir Castle, located in the township of Mir, is a unique monument of the Belarusian national culture. In 2000, Mir Castle was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List according to the following criteria: Mir Castle is an outstanding example of a central European castle, reflecting the changes of cultural styles (Gothic, Baroque, and Renaissance); a visual design and exterior pattern of a long history of political and cultural oppositions and interactions. The architectural complex consists of the Castle of the 16th — 20th , earth mounds of the 17th — 17th centuries, a landscape and regular park, an artificial lake, an outhouse, the Chapel-Crypt of the Svyatopolk-Mirsky Dukes with the watchman’s house and gates, a roadside chapel on the area of about 25 hectares. In 1947, the State took the Castle under its protection as an architectural monument of the 16th — 20th centuries. In 1987, Mir Castle became a branch of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus (at that time, the State Art Museum of the BSSR).