The guidebook of the Museum of town and district history has been issued this week. It contains beautiful high quality pictures and information about exposition halls, displayed articles and even several outstanding residents of Kirillov.
The Museum of town and district history was opened three years ago as one of the departments of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve. Its exposition is located is a typical dwelling house of the late 19th century. Visitors can see interiors of the rooms that have conventional names: a drawing-room, a study, a bedroom, a room for servants, a dining room, and a doctor’s room. The museum gives an opportunity to reflect on the past and to see how people lived in Kirillov hundred years ago, what things town dwellers were surrounded with in their everyday life, how the household furnishing changed on festive days. Visitors who have crossed the threshold of this house understand that they have got to a different epoch. Some articles seem to be familiar, but the others demand explanation…
The guidebook published for the fist time will help you to make an interesting tour of the past century. You can buy it in the Museum of town and district history and souvenir shops located in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve.
