Over 3000 tourists visited the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes during the New Year’s holidays. Guests got acquainted with the expositions and admired the unique frescoes created by the outstanding icon-painter Dionisy in the Nativity of the Virgin Cathedral in 1502. Along with the usual tours, starting from January 2, 2014, they also attended various events prepared by the museum employees.
During the opening ceremony of the display of photos created by the participants of the contest “The Most Interesting Photograph” organized on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the Kirillo-Belozersky Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve, the following contestants who took prize-winning places were awarded diplomas and prizes: Mikhail Ozhogin from Kirillov, Natalya Timofeeva from Vologda and Ekaterina Kulikova from the village of Ust-Kubenskoye in the Vologda district. The exhibition presenting the photos taken by the residents of Moscow, Cherepovets, Vologda, Kirillov, Ust-Kubenskoye and Ferapontovo will be open in the administrative building of the museum till late January 2014.
Visitors were pleased to take part in the master-classes “Secrets of Cyrillic alphabet” and “Psalter – main teaching book in Ancient Russia” and the museum lesson in batik painting on the subject “Architecture of the Ferapontov Monastery in decorative and applied arts”. They wrote with a pen and ink, learnt to write in Church Slavonic, discovered the origin of letters and deciphered a secret message. The guests also showed their creative skills and tried to paint monuments of the Ferapontov Monastery on fabric.
A lot of people wanted to get to mysterious atmosphere and to go along dark narrow stairs and storages and participated in the quest-tour “In search of a secret room”. They managed to find a treasure in the hiding-place of the monastery and learnt many new and interesting things about the history of the cloister. We remind you that everybody can make such a tour of the ancient monuments of the Ferapontov Monastery.
The museum visitors got an opportunity to see a puppet-show of the Nativity on the Christmas Eve and on the holiday itself celebrated on January 7. Children and adults watched a traditional Christmas performance presented with the help of puppets in a special wooden box that helped them to understand the essence of the Nativity of Christ. They made a Christmas star at the master-class after the performance.
The museum employees thank everybody who could come and take part in the New Year’s events.
