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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

11.04.2014

The new issue of the magazine “Antikvariat, Predmety Iskustva i Kollektsionirovaniya” about the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve was published in April. The detailed announcement with the list of articles prepared by the research officers of the museum was placed on the website of the magazine. There are several sections in the issue: “Church art”, “Restoration”, “Church silver articles”, “Arms”, “Heraldry”, “Numismatics”, “Workshop”, “Bibliophile”, Items of the century”, “Needlework”. Soon you will be able to buy it in the souvenir shops of the museum.

This illustrated magazine is issued 10 times a year in an edition of 16 thousand copies and is widespread in Russia, the CIS countries and abroad. Materials about all types of collecting, reviews of antiquarian market, articles of the leading experts and sellers of the antiques about history of art objects and productions are published in the magazine.