The museum continued cooperating with schools, kindergartens and cultural institutions of the Kirillov district in the new academic year.
On October 22 and November 26, the museum employees went to the Alyoshinskaya school in the village of Shindalovo, and to the school and the kindergarten in Goritsy. They read 14 lectures and delivered 5 master-classes there.
Special attention is paid to the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War this year. In Shindalovo, Olga Kuzmichyova told pupils about the residents of Kirillov who defended the Motherland and Anna Kalikina – about the fate of children in the wartime. Marina Travnikova discussed the war and childhood with pupils of Goritsy. Meeting with witnesses of the events, she gathered really unique historical materials and prepared a lecture titled “Childhood Seared by the War”. It is about the children of the Kirillov district born in wartime.
The master-class in iris folding is very popular with pupils and teachers for several years. It is delivered by Lyubov Akimova and Tatiana Usova, employees of the Department of Visitor Relations. This time fourth-form boys and girls of the Goritsy school created the cards “Flower” and “Cat” for the Mother’s Day.
The museum employees don’t forget about the youngest residents of rural settlements in the Kirillov district. Anna Vedenina conducted a lesson “Once Upon a Time…” and told children in the kindergarten of Goritsy about the Russian log house, its construction and decoration. At the end of the event, they staged a fairy tale “Motley Pullet”.
One more important form of the museum off-site work is travelling exhibitions. 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the Volga-Baltic Waterway. It was opened on June 5, 1964. The Volga-Baltic Waterway is a complex of engineering structures, a significant part of the single water system of Russia that is over 1000 km long. Its third part passes through the area of the Vologda region. The employees of the Exposition and Exhibition Department made a mobile exhibition timed to this anniversary. Drawings, photographs and documents about the history of construction of the Volga-Baltic Waterway and its present state were presented on five stands. The new mobile exhibition “50th Anniversary of the Volga-Baltic Waterway” was open in the rural cultural centres of Korotetskaya and Kovarzino in November and December.
