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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13.04.2015

Easter Festival began in museum

Orthodox believers celebrated Easter – one of the main church holidays - on Sunday, April 12. A large spring event – the Fourth Easter Festival “Low Sunday” - started in the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve on that day. It was opened with the concert program “My Russia – My Native Corner”. Olga and Lyubov Yemelicheva, famous singer-songwriters from Kirillov, performed for guests. They also recited the verse they had written themselves. Young talents of the town - Varya Makina, Maxim Savin, Seryozha Sirotkin, Daniil Sokolov - participated in the concert as well. Marina Sergeeva, Natalya Golubeva and Angelina Gorbunova accompanied them. Spectators liked the performances very much; they cheered the artists and thanked all participants and organizers.

Besides, the creative workshop was opened in the parvis of the Refectory on that day. Children and their parents made interesting and unusual Easter articles during several master-classes.

The next event of the Fourth Easter Festival “Low Sunday” will take place tomorrow, on April 14. A meeting with the writer Pavel Basinsky will begin in the conference hall of the museum at 15:00. A ticket costs 50 rubles; admission for children, students and pensioners is free.

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