There are 29 clubs, the House of Crafts and the museum of local lore in the Tolochin region.
There are 102 art amateur groups in the region. Ten amateur groups have been awarded the title of “People’s”. There are 92 amateur groups in rural areas which unites 1013 members.
There are 2 children’s music schools in the region.
The folk song group “Yavar” of the Tolochin community center has won the Third Class Diploma at the oblast-wide festival “Songs of Our Fathers”.
The folk theater “Balaboly” of the Kohanovo community center has been awarded the First Prize Diploma at the oblast-wide contest of planners of culture events. The Emelyanovy family from the Ploskaye rural leisure center and the Stankevich family from Tolochin took part in the oblast-wide family art contest “Family of the Dvina Region” and won the prizewinner diploma.
The theatrical group from the Vorontsevichi rural community center placed first at the oblast-wide competition of youth amateur theater of the rural community centers “Theatrical Horizons”.
The network of libraries in the region features a central regional library, a children’s library and 32 rural libraries. The book stocks of the region numbers 310.7 thousand copies. A public center of legal information was set up at the central regional library.
The Tolochin House of Crafts seeks to revive national trades and crafts: wood engraving, modeling, embroidery and others.
The Tolochin museum of local lore has 7,774 items of the main stocks and 11,200 units of the auxiliary stocks. The museum is composed of the old history, ethnography and nature of the region halls.
There are three species of architecture in the Tolochin region including the famous former Basilians Monastery of 1769. There are also two historical and 21 archeological sites including the site of the ancient settlement of Drutsk. It is the only one in Belarus where the surviving outlines of the dedinets (the old Belarusian for the downtown), the surrounding and the craftsmen’s parts of the town are very distinctive.
The Tolochin Regional Council of Deputies and the Tolochin Regional Executive Committee are the founders of the regional newspaper “Nasha Tolochinschina” which has been published since May, 1931. Today, its circulation is more than 5 thousand copies. The region has its own radio station as well.
