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

21.05.2013

Display “Iconostasis of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery” is among ten best exhibitions of medieval art in the world

The monthly colour newspaper “The Art Newspaper Russia” reporting about world art news in Russian published the ranking of attendance of museums and exhibitions in its May issue.

The exhibition “Iconostasis of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery” which had been held in the Moscow Kremlin Museums from June 15 to August 26, 2012, occupied 3^rd place in the section “Ten best exhibitions of medieval art”. According to the report, 93 thousand people (almost 1,5 thousand visitors every day) admired the icons from the collection of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve within two months and a half.

The exhibitions staged in the museums of Florence and Barcelona – “Golden Flashes” and “Catalonia 1400. The International Gothic Festival” - took the first and second places in the ranking. The other places were occupied by the museums of the USA. The exhibition “Nikolaus Gerhaert – Medieval Sculptor” staged in Frankfurt (Germany) was ranked 10^th.

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