Participants of the Interregional Conference ‘Promotion of Information Resources of Culture and Art in the Cultural Sphere of the North-West of Russia” went to the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve on September 26. This event was organized by the Vologda Regional Universal Scientific Library named after I.V. Babushkin. Librarians from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Murmansk, Archangelsk, Pskov and Vologda took part in it. During the tour, the guests saw the exhibition “History of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery” in the Refectory and went to the Scientific Library of the museum. N.A. Shumilova told her colleagues about peculiarities of work, acquisition of the library and variety of the holding. The participants of the conference highly appreciated the work of the museum library and were delighted with the museum collections. They were given issues of the museum informational reporter “World of the Museum” as a keepsake of Kirillov.
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.
27.09.2014
Participants of interregional conference visited Museum Scientific Library