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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

16.12.2013

An award ceremony of the winners of the contest for the most interesting photograph organized on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve opening was held on December 16. Tatiana Panina, resident of Kirillov, gained the largest number of votes (147) and became the winner. A diploma and a prize – books about the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve and its activity – were presented to Tatiana right at her workplace, in the administrative building of the Kirillov District Consumers Society. The winner in her turn thanked the museum employees and wished them further success in the organization and holding of interesting events for residents of the town and the district.

Ekaterina Kulikova (from the village of Ust-Kubenskoye in the Vologda district) was named the second winner of the contest according to the results of the museum employees’ voting. Authors of the photographs that took the second and the third places in the Internet-voting were also awarded prizes: Mikhail Ozhogin from Kirillov (94 votes) and Natalya Timofeeva from Vologda (80).

The contest organizers express gratitude to all participants and invite everybody to take an active part in various museum events.