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.
28.02.2011
The exhibition “World of bells” was opened in the Bell Tower on 26 February 2011
One can see the exhibits of the collection of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum such as the bells of the XVI – XIXth centuries, shaft-bow bells, door-bells, jingles. There are the pictures painted by B. Gorbunov, A. Ryabkov, V. Malkov, A. Evtiheev, N. Martynov, A. Pozdnyakov, some lithographs, prints and photos of bell towers and the churches of the Kirillo-Belozersky and Ferapontov monasteries and the Goritskiy convent.
The monastery had a very rich collection of bells. These bells were melted down in 1930-1931. Only two bells cast in Holland were preserved in the museum. The principal part of bells was collected by the employees of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum in the XXth century.
