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.
15.01.2013
Meeting with Olga Emelicheva and Lyubov Emelicheva was held in the Museum of town and district history
The meeting with famous local singer-songwriters Olga Emelicheva and Lyubov Emelicheva took place in the Museum of town and district history on Christmas Eve. Guests gathered in a cosy drawing-room of the museum. Its interior decoration consists of the articles of the 19th – middle of the 20th century.
Olga and Lyubov recited poems and sang different songs, including Russian folk, bardic, modern ones and songs which they composed themselves. Most of them were about love, love for the small motherland, in particular for Kirillov, love for their relatives and for the world around.
When the event came to an end, its participants thanked the singer-songwriters for that good mood which they presented to them, took their verses and took pictures.
