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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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21.08.2013

The exhibition of the International Landscape Centre “Golden Age” was opened in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve. Its goal is to attract attention to the most important problem of modern times – communication of people with nature. This question is still topical now and is regularly raised by the world community, in particular, by such organizations as the UNO and the UNESCO.

Various art objects are presented at the exhibition: “Continent – Golden Age”, “Landscape Module”, the book and the map “Soul of Landscape”, the draft architectural design “House of Landscapes”, the Tree of Harmony and so on. Their authors, Natalya and Viktor Pozhidaevs, have made an attempt to express the idea of sustainable development of life that can be possible only under the condition of harmonious communication of people with nature, by means of symbols. They have also made the project aimed at the establishment of the International Landscape Centre. It is based on the strategic work of Natalya Pozhidaeva, President of the Fund for Saving National Landscape, concerning the formation of a system of social and natural landscapes in our country. The initiative of preservation and use of the landscape potential of Russia and the world community has been approved by the Council of Europe and is supported by the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.