The exhibition “Children of the Village in the 20th-century Photos” continues the large photo project “Faces of the Village” organized by the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes. Several other thematic exhibitions about work, festivals and traditions of the village portrait will be held within the framework of this project in the next few years. Local residents and people living in the outskirts of Ferapontovo who have handed over their pictures to the museum participate in the exhibition. The secondary school and the kindergarten of Ferapontovo gave a lot of materials. All photos were scanned and most of them were displayed. People can see dozens of children’s pictures from the family archives on the stands. There are a lot of portraits - beautiful and honest faces, shy and ingenious, evidencing about their time. These black-and-white, sometimes faded, photographs have special atmosphere of the irretrievably past times and cast a gloom and warmth. All pictures convey the mood of depicted people and help to see a personal look and emotional message of the photographer.
The exhibition of drawings of the children’s fine arts studio “Tchereda” was opened in the rural health post of Ferapontovo. The works reflect two thematic directions of the training process in the studio: drawings connected with general history of art and pictures about expositions and exhibitions of the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes. Pupils regularly go to see temporary displays and learn from the masters fulfilling practical tasks. Children paint monastery structures during the open air events and get acquainted with their inner decoration in the interiors. The exhibition in the lobby of the medical post will give a chance to adults and kids to see the creative works of young artists and hopefully will cheer up visitors and employees of the medical institution.
The exhibition of works of Kirillov’s master Nikolay Mitin, is still open in the Church of St. Prophet Elijah in 
the museum complex “Tsypino”. The famous smith has been plying his trade since 1989, having mastered this profession himself (his ancestors were not smiths). He began to make simple driver’s tools and then gradually became interested in artistic forging. His real talent was displayed in making of reconstructions. Nikolay Mitin creates wonderful articles the forms of which were perfected during centuries: armour – pole-axes, axes, spearheads, knives; traditional tools of peasants’ everyday life – oven forks, hooks, candlesticks, forged nails and locks. Restorers often ask the master for help, because numerous monuments of the Vologda region require necessary details of that time. And probably, there is nothing impossible in the smithcraft for him: “I can do everything that has been made in the smithy”, said N. Mitin.
