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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.

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21.02.2013

A display of pictures created by eight artists of the Vologda Creative and Exhibition Association “Rainbow” – V. Grigoriev, Y. Korobov, N. Mishusta, N. Sazhin, A. Borisov, V. Antonov, N. Antonova, E. Shevchenko - was opened in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve on February 20.

Both well-known places (for instance, the Kirillo-Belozersky and the Ferapontov monasteries) and unknown beautiful landscapes of the Russian North are depicted in the pictures presented in the conference hall. You can see different parts of the Vologda region and can understand how rich its spiritual history which doesn’t fall into oblivion is. Along with the Russian landscapes, the exhibition includes Greek ones painted by V. Antonov.

“Our exhibition is the product of the artists who united in 1995 to carry out creative work at the time of stagnation in Russia in the 1990s. We called our group “Rainbow” and this name became naturalized, though some people considered it to be childish or youth. But youth must inhere in the artist in spite of his or her age. This exhibition presents only a small part of the store of works which we have created within these years. As for me, I wanted to show those pictures the material for which I amassed here in Kirillov. I plan to continue working on this interesting subject in future. I am very grateful to the organizers for the arrangement of the exhibition and an opportunity to meet with you”, said Nikolay Mishusta, chairman of the Artists’ Union of the Vologda region, at the opening ceremony.

You can come and admire wonderful paintings of talented professional artists every day, except Monday and Tuesday, from 9:00 to 17:30. Admission by ticket.