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.

Monk’s cell

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.

Folk art of the Belozersk district

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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05.03.2013

“Keepers of history”. Exhibition consecrated to the memory of K.S. and T.V. Tserkovnitskys was opened in the Museum of town and district history

An opening ceremony of the exhibition “Keepers of history” dedicated to the memory of Konstantin Sergeevich and Tatiana Vasilievna Tserkovnitskys was held in the Museum of town and district history on Sunday, March 3.

Konstantin Sergeevich Tserkovnitsky, participant of the Great Patriotic War, photo artist of Kirillov, would be 90 on February 28, 2013. And on March 17, we will mark the 5^th anniversary of his death. One more memorable date falls between these days: on March 3, we marked the 40^th day after the death of Tatiana Vasilievna Tserkovnitskaya, veteran of the education work, honorary freeman of Kirillov.

The new exhibition presents photographs and documents from the family archive of the Tserkovnitskys, photos and pictures of K.S. Tserkovnitsky, articles of everyday town life of the early 20^th century which were handed over to the museum from their family house.

Employees of the museum-reserve, teachers of the Vologda Regional Training School of Culture and residents of Kirillov attended the opening ceremony of the display. They remembered Konstantin Sergeevich and Tatiana Vasilievna saying kind words and highly appreciated their contribution to the development of the museum and the town on the whole.

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