Yesterday Vologda Region Governor Oleg Kuvshinnikov congratulated the staff of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve on the professional holiday. The International Museum Day is celebrated all over the world on May 18.
The telegram of greetings was sent from Oleg Kuvshinnikov to museum director Mikhail Sharomazov. “Dear Mikhail Nikolaevich, I congratulate you and the employees of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve on your professional holiday - the International Museum Day. You serve the important and noble purpose of spiritual and cultural enlightenment, the purpose of preserving the memory of many centuries for our descendants. You have managed to turn several generations of Vologda’s residents to cultural values and to train a cohort of highly skilled museum employees within the years of fruitful work. I thank you for preservation and continuation of glorious traditions established by the founders of the first museums in the Vologda region in the late 19th – early 20th centuries. I wish you health and prosperity, active and fruitful activity and new interesting projects. Yours respectfully, Vologda Region Governor Oleg Kuvshinnikov”.
One more congratulation was sent from the Union of Museums of Russia. M.B. Piotrovsky, president of the organization, director general of the State Hermitage, noted in his letter, “…we cannot help thinking on this day how high the expectations of the society connected with the museum affairs are, how important the richest historical and moral experience contained in the evidences of the past that we keep is for our citizens”.
We accepted congratulations from our colleagues, researchers, friends and people who had visited Kirillov once during the whole day. Some of them were posted in the social networking sites.
In comparison with other professional holidays, the International Museum Day is always celebrated not privately. Interesting programs are prepared for visitors on this day. They participate in them free of charge. The action “Night at the Museum” is one of such events.
