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.

Monk’s cell

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.

Folk art of the Belozersk district

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.

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05.02.2015

Kirillo-Belozersky Museum is preparing for festival

Preparation for the forthcoming festival “Winter Fortress” is in full swing in the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve. Workers are shoveling away snow using tractors on the area of the New Town where the event would take place on February 21. There will be three grounds instead of snow-drifts: “Snowy Town”, “Merry Outdoor festivities and knockabout comedies” and “Heroic Might”.

The festival titled “Winter Fortress” will be first held in the museum. It will begin the program of another event – “In Snow of Kirillov” that is widely-known far outside Kirillov and even the Vologda region.

The program of the festival will include: an exhibition of snow figures “Cannons That Don’t Shoot”, a charitable lottery “Heart Memory” (marking the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War), performances of folk ensembles from Cherepovets and Kirillov and students of the Vologda Regional Training School of Culture. The fist-fighting group “Busa” and local sportsmen, including kettlebell lifter, winner of the European Cup Anatoly Babkin, will join in the festival.

Visitors will be able to taste hot pancakes with monastery tea, to go on amusement rides, to participate in Russian folk games, master-classes, and to make tours of the museum.

You can find full program of the event here:

http://www.kirmuseum.ru/en/news/detail.php?ID=233669

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