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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09.07.2015

Secretary of RF Security Council Nikolai Patrushev visited museum

The delegation consisting of Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, and Vladimir Bulavin, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District, has visited Kirillov and Ferapontovo today, on July 9. They have come to see the local sights.

The Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes situated within the ensemble of the Ferapontov Monastery – the UNESCO World Heritage Site – was the first point of the tour program. The guests visited the Refectory, went to the Church of St. Martinian, the gate Church of Epiphany and the world-famous Nativity of the Virgin Cathedral with the frescoes of Dionisy painted in 1502. Then the delegation went to Kirillov. During the visit to the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve, they saw the main exhibitions in the House of the Father Superior and the Refectory, went to the Assumption Cathedral and the Church of St. Kirill.

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