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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

29.04.2013

Another Family Day was held in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve. The event “The Breath of the Past Blows Again” organized by the employees of the Development Department took place in the Museum of town and district history. Families of Kirillov - grandmothers, parents and children - were invited to it. It is very pleasant that large families also visited the museum. They got to the atmosphere of the early 20th century. The museum employees told them about life of the family of district doctor Nodelman. The guests listened to romances in the drawing-room and even sang themselves and danced. Children and parents could also play popular games of the early 20th century. Then the kids had tea with sweets and the adults tasted coffee in the dining room.

Children under 18, large families and students of higher education institutions could visit all expositions and exhibitions of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve free of charge on that day.