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.
27.10.2013
Representatives of Consulate General of Poland in St. Petersburg visited our museum
Lucyna Morawska-Uhryn, Consular of the Consulate General of Poland in St. Petersburg, and Natalia Bryżko-Zapór, director of Polish Institute in St. Petersburg, came to the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve on October 24.
The goal of their unofficial visit was to see the sights of the Vologda region. During the tour, the guests walked on the museum grounds, saw the exhibition in the House of the Father Superior and signed the Distinguished Visitors’ Book. Besides, they admired the frescoes in the Nativity of the Virgin Cathedral in the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes.
