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.
19.02.2014
Journalists of regional television will tell about making of new exposition in Refectory
The shooting team of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company “Vologda” has come to the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve today. Programs of this company go on the air of the federal channel “Russia” every day. The goal of the visit was one of the most curious news topics of the previous weeks – making of the new exposition “History of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery” in the Refectory.
The crew has gone to those halls where museum employees are working on the new exposition at present and where the public are not admitted. Correspondent Anna Konanova has spoken with Lyudmila Terebova, head of the Scientific Department, who is the author of the exhibition concept.
It is planned that this story will go on the air next week.
