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.
30.04.2014
Participants of film festival “Frescoes of the North” visited Kirillov and Ferapontovo
The Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve and the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes received participants of the festival on April 28. The guests went to see the new exhibition in the Refectory (Kirillov) and the Nativity of the Virgin Cathedral (Ferapontovo).
The Tenth Open Non-Fiction and Animated Film Festival for Children and Youth “Frescoes of the North” named after film director Yuri Polovnikov was held in the Vologda region from April 25 to 28. 30 works of various genres were presented at the event: documentary, feature and animated films shot by both local directors-beginners and famous Russian authors.
