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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01.04.2015

Chinese choir will sing war songs

The First Russian and Chinese Festival of Russian Song will take place in the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve from June 11 to 14, 2015. Its program will include concerts of groups and solo singers, “evenings of friendship” and creative events, temporary exhibitions about national cultures of Russia and China. The festival will culminate in the gala concert that will be organized on the main stage of the museum on the Day of Russia celebrated on June 12. Participants will perform with civil, folk and patriotic compositions and songs of the Great Patriotic War.

Music directors of the festival:

Svetlana Zavarina, Honoured Art Worker of the RF, teacher of the Vologda Regional Training School of Culture; Olga Chechanicheva, teacher of the Children’s Art School.

Shchi Vypin, musician, artistic director and chief conductor of the choir “International” (Guangzhou).

Festival organizers:

Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve

Choir “International”

Festival partners:

Department of Culture in the Kirillov District Administration

Vologda Regional Training School of Culture

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The project is implemented within the programme of support for fine arts museums in the provinces of Russia "Museums of the Russian North" supported by "Severstal" PLC and "CAF" (Charities Aid Foundation)