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.
08.05.2014
Four new museum exhibitions are open for visitors
The beginning of the summer tourist season in the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve was marked by the opening of three new exhibitions and one exposition.
Exhibition “Star Most Bright”
(the image of the Virgin of the 18th – 19th centuries from the tempera painting collection of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve)
Where: the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve. The Treasury Chamber
Opening hours: from 09:00 to 18:00, every day from May 1 to September 30
The exhibition presents 52 icons of the Virgin in her numerous iconography. Created in the modern age, they reflected not only new artistic solutions that appeared in the Russian painting under the influence of the West-European art, but also centuries-old traditions of Russian icon-painting of the previous centuries. Almost all icons are displayed for the first time.
Exposition “Craft and Masterpieces”
Where: the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve. The House of the Father Superior
Opening hours: from 09:00 to 18:00, every day from May 1 to September 30
About 200 items from the museum holdings are exhibited in five halls. The main goal of the new exposition is to show development of culture in the Belozersk district, artistic craftwork on the base of museum articles demonstrating the Russian church art of the 16th – early 20th centuries.
Exhibition “We Are Eternal Tenderness of Each Other…”
(the exhibition dedicated to the memory of Ivan Timofeevich and Olga Ivanovna Andreevs)
Where: the Museum of Town and District History at 103 Gagarin Street
Opening hours: from 09:00 to 18:00. The exhibition will be open till the middle of June 2014.
Ivan Timofeevich and Olga Ivanovna Andreevs were well-known in the cultural life of Kirillov. They made an important contribution to the historical and cultural heritage of the Vologda region. Their daughters, relatives, friends, colleagues and pupils came to the opening ceremony of the exhibition. They could not only see photographs, documents and personal things, but also listen to saxophone music performed by Viktor Khabarov (Archangelsk).
Exhibition “On Occasion of 70th birthday of Lieutenant General Leonid Alexeevich Shivdyakov”
Where: the Museum of Town and District History at 103 Gagarin Street
Opening hours: from 09:00 to 18:00. The exhibition will be open till the middle of June 2014.
The small exhibition was opened on the occasion of the birthday of Lieutenant General Leonid Alexeevich Shivdyakov, native of the Kirillov district. It presents the personal things that he handed over to the museum.
