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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.

News

06.03.2013

The project “Museums of the Kirillov district” is going on. It is worth reminding that eight teams are to visit museums of the district during several months. Thematic tours and interactive lessons are conducted for them there. They write down all information about their visits in the register called “Chronicles of Tour”. It also contains the number of points which the teams gain at this or that lesson. Their total amount will be taken into account to determine the winner of the project.

“The participants have reached the midway point of the project. And their activity has increased. Over 500 people have visited the museums of the district. There are two months left till the completion of the project, but they still have a lot to do: to go to see the other museums according to their itinerary, to decorate their registers “Chronicles of Tour”, to make a presentation about their tour and to prepare for the final which will be held in the conference hall of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve in early May. The most active teams will be determined at the final stage of the project. One of them will become a winner. Participants will be given awards and souvenirs”, said Yevgeny Kivelev, curator of the project.