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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03.10.2013

Items from museum collection are presented at restoration exhibition in Moscow

The exhibition of the All-Russian Art Scientific and Restoration Centre named after academician I.E. Grabar was opened in the halls of the All-Russian Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts in Moscow last week. This event is organized on the occasion of the 95^th anniversary of the centre: “All-Russian Art Scientific and Restoration Centre named after academician I.E. Grabar. 95 years of scientific restoration: discoveries and everyday life”.

The display tells about the history of restoration of over 170 articles from the collections of 55 largest museums of Russia. The employees of the centre have preserved thousands of monuments of art. Hundreds of exhibits from the collections of Russian museums are brought for restoration every year: works of tempera and oil painting, drawings, stone and wooden sculpture, furniture, manuscripts and rare books, articles of bone, metal, clay, porcelain, glass, textile, leather, archeological finds.

Among the works representing the Vologda’s branch of the centre there are items from the collection of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve, namely: the 17^th-century icon “The Virgin of the Passion” (restorer T.P. Rybakova) and six keys of the 10^th-17^th centuries (restorer S.G. Burshneva).

According to the materials of the website: cultinfo.ru

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