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.
19.03.2013
Pupils learnt elements of Cyrillic alphabet
On the threshold of the 1150th anniversary of the invention of Slavic Writing and Culture (celebrations will be held on May 24), employees of the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes prepared a master-class “Secrets of Cyrillic alphabet” and invited pupils of the district to take part in it.
At present 85 schoolchildren of Kirillov, the Nikolsky Torzhok and the Goritsy villages have participated in the event. Boys and girls wrote with a pen with interest and puzzled out mysteries of the Cyrillic alphabet. Museum employees plan to continue telling pupils about book writing the Ferapontov monastery was famous for from time immemorial in the course of such engrossing lessons.
