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.
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.
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.
19.01.2011
«This dark-cherry shawl»
The Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve has featured 28 objects of its collection in the exhibition dedicated to woman’s head-dresses of the XVIIIth-XIXth centuries.
Besides shawls one can see kerchiefs and tippets. The head-dresses are made of wool, silk, brocade and cotton. They are embroidered, woven and printed.
The exhibitions of this kind are always in demand because the tradition of making and use of head-dresses is from the remote past. “Anniversary kerchiefs” are the particular part of the exhibition. They are called so because their subjects are dedicated to historical figures, dates and events.
The exhibition will extend until April 5, 2011.
