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.
14.11.2013
Head of Kirillov district appreciated work of museum employees
A meeting about the results of the tourist season 2013 was held in the Kirillov District Administration on November 12. Heads of organizations and companies receiving tourists, representatives of the National Park “Russian North”, hotels and recreation centres gathered in the assembly hall. Participants of the meeting discussed the current standing, problems and plans for the future. Ilya Smirnov, deputy director of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve, told about the results of the summer tourist season.
An award ceremony of specialists who had made a personal contribution to the development of tourism in the Kirillov district took place in the course of the event. The following museum employees were given letters of gratitude of S.V. Usov, head of the Kirillov district: tour organizer A.E. Kozlova; guide N.V. Petrova and Y.A. Kivelev, head of the Excursion and Instruction Department in the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes.
