The NAS approves the Action Plan to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Institute of Belarusian Culture, on the basis of which the Academy of Sciences was established. This decision was made on March 23, 2021 at a meeting of the Bureau of the Presidium.

The document includes a listing of about thirty major events, including international forums and conferences, round tables, lectures and discussion platforms, organizing and holding book exhibitions, preparing special book publications, scientific and popular scientific works dedicated to the Institute of Belarusian Culture. Scientists of the Department of Humanities and Arts of the Academy of Sciences have planned to create an electronic information resource “The Institute of Belarusian Culture: to the 100th anniversary of its founding”, a virtual tour pf the exposition of the exhibition dedicated to the anniversary. A special badge “In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Institute of Belarusian Culture” will be made. Researchers at the Institute of History will prepare an edition of a historical and archeological collection dedicated to the significant date. As the Chairman of the Presidium of the NAS of Belarus Vladimir Gusakov noted, “this plan is only the basis for a year, it will be filled with new familiar events and initiatives”.

The solemn celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Institute of Belarusian Culture is planned to coincide with the celebration of the Day of Belarusian Science in January 2022.

On January 30, 1922, on the basis of the Scientific terminology commission, the Institute of Belarusian Culture, the higher state scientific structure in the BSSR, was established with the main tasks of organizing the study of social sciences and coordinating all scientific activity in the state. Having started its activity with research in the field of humanities, the Institute of Belarusian Culture gradually began to acquire the character as an integrated scientific institution. In July 1926 preparation began for the reorganization of the Institute of Belarusian Culture in the Academy of Sciences. Already in 1928, the Institute has 15 departments, 3 commissions, the Botanical Garden, Chemical Laboratory, the Zoological Museum, the Library and the Printing in House. On October 13, 1928 the Administration of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic adopted a resolution “On the reorganization the Institute of Belarusian Culture into the Belarusian Academy of Sciences”.