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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.

News

31.10.2013

Museum employees resumed their work with schools and kindergartens of the Kirillov district within the framework of the program “Travelling museum” in the new school year. They went to three villages – Volokoslavinskoye, Goritsy and Talitsy.

N.V. Petrova held the event “Russian folk games” for the first-formers and A.N. Repina gave the lecture about the Volga-Baltic Sea Waterway “The Main Waterway” for fourth-form boys and girls in the Goritsy elementary school. This lecture continued a cycle of lessons about the native region.

Employees of the Department of Visitor Relations and the Exhibition and Exposition Department visited the kindergarten and the primary school in Volokoslavinskoye. Children of the kindergarten made a tour of the land of Russian fairy tales together with A.N. Kalikina. N.S. Gostinshchikova told pupils about the images of Jesus Christ in the church art and K.V. Gusarina - about great Belozersk saints Ferapont and Martinian.

The mobile exhibition “Folk Doll” was presented in the home for senior and disabled citizens and in the secondary school of Talitsy. N.V. Nevzorova and T.V. Usova told about different kinds of rag-dolls and methods of their making. The museum employees delivered a master-class “Patterned belt” in the home for senior and disabled citizens, telling about this important attribute of peasant clothing.