The Development Department of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve has started to implement a new program “Museum – to the Vologda region” expanding the museum activity outside the Kirillov district. The pilot project was a trip of museum employees to the Novlenskoye village in the Vologda district.
A playing program “Magic Box” was held for children of the kindergarten and elementary school pupils. Materials collected by the Club of Game Friends of the Youth Playing Association “Divo (Miracle)” (Moscow) within 30 years of its activity formed the basis of this program. Folk games are perfect and valuable works of folk art. They develop dexterity, flexibility, strength, imagination and foster social skills. There is room for 258 articles used in 30 games in the small box. About 100 people can play simultaneously!
Third-form pupils created postcards in the iris folding technique with their own hands. A travelling photo display “Famous Residents of Kirillov” was interesting for all schoolchildren. Pupils of the 5th-11th forms saw a documentary “The Monastery’s True Story” telling about the history of the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery and the museum-reserve in the assembly hall.
