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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05.09.2013

Chemists visited Kirillov

Participants of the International conference organized by the G.A. Razuvaev Institute of Organometallic Chemistry of RAS (Nizhny Novgorod) visited the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve on September 4. Among them there were employees of the A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds of RAS, scholars from Moscow, Novosibirsk, Penza, other cities of Russia and other countries. The conference takes place on board of the motor ship “Georgy Zhukov”. Employees of the Department of Visitor Relations conducted tours in English and Russian for the guests who saw the exhibitions in the House of the Father Superior and had a walking tour of the museum. The visitors were admired at what they had seen.

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