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.
15.01.2014
This year’s first meeting of initiative council on memorialization of Prince Mikhail Vorotynsky took place in museum
An off-site meeting of the initiative council on memorialization of Prince Mikhail Ivanovich Vorotynsky was held in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve on January 13. Its participants summed up results of the work in 2013 and planned the main directions of activity in 2014.
The council members got acquainted with the course of restoration in the Assumption Cathedral and the Church of St. Vladimir. They highly appreciated its volume and quality and the efforts of museumfication of those monuments. Father Superior of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery Ignaty took part in the meeting. A service for the dead was performed in the Church of St. Vladimir – the burial place of the Vorotynskys.
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