On January 26, O.G. Kuzmichyova and E.I. Nikolaeva, employees of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve, participated in the 20th district conference “World through culture”. It is held by the Education Department of the Kirillov District Administration in the secondary school of the town. Its participants presented research works in several directions. There were such sections as “Folklore and ethnography” (literary local studies), “Biology, bioecology, hydrobiology”. Our colleagues judged the participants’ works on the following subjects: “Living past” (study of local history), “Fate of Russia in the fate of fellow-townsmen” (archaeography). Most of them were about the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery, priests of the Cathedral of the Virgin of Kazan, rural parishes of the Belozersk district. The most interesting and topical works can participate in the next Kirillov Readings.
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.
29.01.2013
Museum employees were judges at the conference “World through culture”