History of the region based on the materials of archeological excavations” is being opened on the lowest floor of the Church of the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple with the refectory. It is the first full exhibition representing archaeology of the Belozersk district in the Vologda Region. Materials of the monastery archeology are displayed for the first time in our region. More than 4000 archeological objects dating back to different chronological periods are represented there: from the Mesolithic period (9000 B.C.) till the late Middle Ages.
At the end of the 20th – early 21st century considerable restoration work has been carried out in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve. Museumfication of the monuments is being realized at the same time. One of the most interesting architectural buildings of the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery is the Monks’ cells. In the process of its restoration architects and restorers managed to discover complicated structure of this dwelling house of the 17th-19th centuries.
Exhibitions dedicated to the folk applied art and handicrafts of the Belozersk district are placed in the spacious vaulted chambers of the monastery cook-house of the 16th century. An important place is occupied by wood-carving, ceramics, peasant embroidery, weaving, lace-making and a folk female costume of the 19th-early 20th centuries.
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The seminar “Regional studies in school” was held in the museum. The teachers of the Kirillov district and the employees of the museum took part in the seminar. They discussed the subject “Role of the regional potential in the realization of the national educational project.
The group of the polish restorers visited the museum. They arrived in the Vologda region within the limits of the program “Polish culture”.
The exhibition “Its majesty doll” was opened in the Historic-Architectural and Art museum-reserve in Vologda. Among the presented dolls there are ones of the collection of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum and the private collections of T.V.Trubnikova and N.V.Groshnikova.
The restoration of the Cellar’s House went to the end. It was held by the LLC “Restoration center – architecture, manufacture, training” under the guidance of its director A.V.Popov and the architect L.A.Lupushor.
