Young inhabitants of the Vologda region have a wonderful opportunity to attend different master-classes and even to see small exhibitions of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve without leaving their village, town or city. Museum employees go to schools and kindergartens located in different districts of the Vologda region several times a year. Implementation of the program “Museum – to the Vologda Region” is going on in 2015.
This week the employees of three museum departments have visited the School ¹ 18 in Cherepovets. They have presented the exhibition “Military Valour of Centuries” and have conducted a number of interesting lessons for schoolchildren. Elementary schools pupils have learnt a lot of about Russian folk games thanks to the playing program “Magic Box”. Boys and girls of the middle classes have joined in the master-classes “Belt on Camomile” and “Easter Gift” (in the iris-folding technique). Besides, some lectures have been read for the young residents of Cherepovets. They were about the Great Patriotic War and the archeological excavations in the Belozersk region.
One more lesson was about the multimedia project of the museum – the virtual tour of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery. The pupils have carefully listened to the description and then have been pleased to make a virtual tour of the monastery themselves.
This tour was placed on the website kirmuseum.ru in late 2012. First it included only the summer version and the audio text in Russian. The winter variant of the tour was added in early 2013. Later the renewed version in both Russian and English became available for Internet users. In 2014, the virtual tour participated in the First Internet Festival of Museum Multimedia “Museum Geek” as a contest work and the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve was given a special prize for it.
