Date: 17.06.2019
The Minsk City Hall will host an exhibition of the Vladimir Potanin Olympic Collection from the 21st of June to the 14th of July. The display will open on the occasion of the 2nd European Games — the largest sporting event of the continent. The scale of the Olympic Collection is impressive — about 400 artifacts from every modern era Olympic games, from the 1896 Games in Athens, through the 2018 Games in PyeongChang.
Vladimir Potanin Olympic Collection is one of the world’s largest private collections of Olympic memorabilia. Among them are gold, silver, bronze awards and commemorative medals, torches, diplomas of winners, pins, trophies, figurines and horns from different Games.
Vladimir Potanin, a well-known Russian entrepreneur and the largest Olympic investor, presents the collection to the large public in order to promote and disseminate the ideals of sportsmanship, Olympism and the Games’ legacy all over the world. Minsk will be the starting point of the collection’s international tour. Next, it will travel to Tokyo — home to the XXXII Summer Olympiad in 2020; Beijing — future capital of XXIV Olympic Winter Games in 2022; and Paris that will host the XXXIII Summer Olympiad in 2024.
The exposition in the Belarusian capital represents the most interesting part of the collection from the historical point of view. These are awards of the Olympic Games of the first half of the XXth century, including the first modern era Olympics of 1896 in Athens, as well as the XV Olympic Games in Helsinki of 1952, in which the USSR national team took part for the first time. The exhibition will also remind visitors about recent Olympic Games that were essential to the Republic of Belarus. The Olympic Flame was lit at the Dynamo Stadium in Minsk at the XXII Olympic Games in 1980. The national team of Belarus, as well as representatives of other former Soviet republics, came to the 1996 Olympics in Lillehammer as separate teams for the first time. And, of course, the exhibition will feature Sochi-2014 memorabilia. The launch of the exhibition project is timed to the five-year anniversary of this Olympics.
Free entry.
Vladimir Potanin Olympic Collection is one of the world’s largest private collections of Olympic memorabilia. Among them are gold, silver, bronze awards and commemorative medals, torches, diplomas of winners, pins, trophies, figurines and horns from different Games.
Vladimir Potanin, a well-known Russian entrepreneur and the largest Olympic investor, presents the collection to the large public in order to promote and disseminate the ideals of sportsmanship, Olympism and the Games’ legacy all over the world. Minsk will be the starting point of the collection’s international tour. Next, it will travel to Tokyo — home to the XXXII Summer Olympiad in 2020; Beijing — future capital of XXIV Olympic Winter Games in 2022; and Paris that will host the XXXIII Summer Olympiad in 2024.
The exposition in the Belarusian capital represents the most interesting part of the collection from the historical point of view. These are awards of the Olympic Games of the first half of the XXth century, including the first modern era Olympics of 1896 in Athens, as well as the XV Olympic Games in Helsinki of 1952, in which the USSR national team took part for the first time. The exhibition will also remind visitors about recent Olympic Games that were essential to the Republic of Belarus. The Olympic Flame was lit at the Dynamo Stadium in Minsk at the XXII Olympic Games in 1980. The national team of Belarus, as well as representatives of other former Soviet republics, came to the 1996 Olympics in Lillehammer as separate teams for the first time. And, of course, the exhibition will feature Sochi-2014 memorabilia. The launch of the exhibition project is timed to the five-year anniversary of this Olympics.
Free entry.