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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

19.11.2013

Members of the theatre studio of the Sunday school performed with a theatricalized composition in the conference hall of the museum yesterday, on November 17. It was about village residents that used to gather in one of the houses in old times, in the late of autumn, after harvesting, and arranged a party. They sang Russian folk songs and humorous rhymes, played games, used proverbs, danced, sang and danced in a ring, and did needlework at the same time – embroidered, span, and wove doormats. The program presented by the children was based on all these elements of spare time in former times. Grateful spectators thanked the young actors with loud cheers. According to Tatiana Lyushina, head of the theatre studio, they have an official name “Tale” now and will present their new program during Christmas holidays.