The museum was established in September 1968 as a branch of the District Museum (now the Podlaskie Museum in Białystok). It was the result of many years of research and collecting passion a large group of people in love with the military past of the Białystok region and the society of the Białystok region wishing to document the armed struggles of ancestors, from the beginning of the Polish state until the period independence fights after the end of World War II in the years 1945–1956.DZIAŁALNOŚĆ WYDAWNICZA MUZEUM WOJSKA W BIAŁYMSTOKU The original seat of the museum was the Guest Palace. It soon turned out that the building could no longer contain exhibits that were still flowing in. In 1974, the museum moved to the building at 7 Kilińskiego Street, its current location. In 1976, it was granted the status of an autonomous macro-regional museum. The organizer and long-time director of the museum was Col. Dr. Zygmunt Kosztła. Using the contacts established during earlier military service, he quickly gathered a collection of exhibits, which are still the basis of the collection owned by the museum. He also began research on the military history of the Bialystok region. In 1980, a project was created to establish a research center by establishing a Military History Research Center in Białystok conducting scientific research and publishing activities.Музей
