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.

News

23.04.2013

Distinguished guests from Switzerland visited Kirillov and Ferapontovo

Swiss guests Ruth Scheidegger-Meier, who presented her collection of European lace and embroidery to the Vologda State Museum-Preserve last year, and Ursula Karbacher, curator of St. Gallen Textile Museum, have gone to see the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve and the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes today. The goal of their visit to the Vologda region is cultural exchange.

The distinguished guests have got acquainted with the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes, having visited the Church of St. Martinian, the Refectory and the Nativity of the Virgin Cathedral. Then they have come to the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve and have seen the exhibition marking the 400^th anniversary of the Romanovs, the exposition of Old Russian painting and embroidery, and had a small walking tour of the monastery.

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