May 2025. I visited Mir Castle as a full-day tour with Smart-Tour from Minsk along with Nesvizh. For 45€ the tour included lunch and entry to both sites. I was the only foreigner on the full bus and the guide spoke just enough English to tell me when to meet back up with the group and made sure to get me an English audioguide before letting me go off on my own.

I visited on a holiday in Belarus so Mir Castle was very busy and even had live entertainment playing in the courtyard. In keeping with its early defensive roots, the restored towers are still quite bare inside and with passages and staircases so narrow I frequently got stuck waiting on the crowds to pass. Old photographs on display show just how much restoration had to be done to get it back to where it is today. War followed by decades neglect took a heavy toll.

The residential rooms were very typical in their displays and nothing stood out as extraordinary which was actually a good thing because I had about 1 hour and 15 minutes to visit Mir Castle and needed the whole time to get through it all due to the frequent bottlenecks. The highlight is definitely the outside views from around the little lake and it makes a pleasant enough day trip together with Nesvizh.