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.
07.02.2011
Romana Chelontkovskaya, the professor of the Polytechnical University of Gdansk (Poland) met the staff of the museum on 7 February 2011. They discussed the problems concerned the Management Plan of the UNESCO World Heritage Site
They concerned the further common plans among them the transportation of the Church of Epiphany from the village Paltoga of the Vytegra district.
They saw the film “ Heritage of the Russian North” about the transportation of the chapel from the village Pasynkovo of the Kirillov district. This project was made by the students of the Polytechnical University of Gdansk.
The participants of that meeting were A. Kuznetsov, the director of the National Park “Russian North”, I. Ryabkova, the leading architect of the Kirillov administration, A. Ivanov, the assistant of the chief of the Kirillov administration, the Father Superior of the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery and outsourced guides.
