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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27.04.2013

Widow of Vologda’s writer Vasily Belov visited the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve

Laureates of the State Award of the Vologda region in the sphere of culture and art in 2012 went to see the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve. A whole group of scholars, writers and specialists of the Department of Culture and Cultural Heritage Preservation were given the award. Last year they presented a project - collected works of the writer Vasily Belov in seven volumes with erudite commentaries.

Several members of the creative group showed their willingness to visit sacred places of the Vologda region. First the delegation came to Ferapontovo and then to Kirillov. Publishers of Moscow, literary critics of Vologda and Moscow, and Olga Sergeevna Belova, widow of the writer who was a compiler of the new edition, were among the guests of the museum.

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