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.
14.02.2014
Museum employees continue conducting lessons for children in villages
Employees of the Exposition and Exhibition Department, the Scientific Department, the Storage Department and the Department of Visitor Relations went to the educational institutions of Nikolsky Torzhok and Goritsy located in the Kirillov district on February 13 and 14. A playing program from the cycle “Fairy Tales of the Old House” was arranged for boys and girls in the kindergarten of Nikolsky Torzhok. For pupils, the museum employees gave 14 lectures on various subjects: “Belozersk Principality in Middle Ages”. “Lives of Belozersk Saints”, “Defence of Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery in Early 17th Century”, “Kirillov District in 1930s”, “Images of Jesus Christ in Religious Art”, “Lace Ornament of Russian Winter”, “Russian Folk Costume”.
