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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07.10.2015

Members of Vologda Region Government saw exhibition in People’s House

Georgy Shevtsov, chairman of the Vologda Region Legislative Assembly, and Vadim Khokhlov, Deputy Governor of the Vologda region, plenipotentiary of the governor in the Region Legislative Assembly, have come to the People’s House today, on October 7. Their visit to Kirillov was connected with the meting in the District Administration about transition of corporate and personal property tax imputation based on cadastral value.

Ilya Smirnov, deputy director of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve, presented the display “In the Wake of Centuries” that had been opened in the People’s House on September 22. He told the guests not only about the exhibits, but also technological infrastructure of the exhibition halls and restoration of the building carried out by the museum. “Well done! My congratulations!” said Georgy Shevtsov, having seen the display.

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