Marc Chagall is a world-renowed jewish painter who was born in Vitebsk, Belarus. Outside Chagall House. The Marc Chagall House Museum was opened in 1997. The house was built in the early 1900s by the artist's father. It is where Marc Chagall spent his early years. The museum displays household items from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as copies of archival documents and the artist's works, telling the story of Marc Chagall and his family's life in Vitebsk.