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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.

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06.04.2011

This collection of the museum is unique. There are objects made by the famous masters of the XIX – XXth centuries. It consists of 7000 exhibits. There are gifts of private persons and the objects collected by the employees of the museum during the expeditions in the Kirillov district in 1993. The museum has bought the collections of objects of the popular art since 2001. There are many painted and carved distaffs and painted boxes.

The collection of the Museum of the frescoes of Dionysius has fine examples of weaving and embroidery. One can see printing boards which were used for making the design of fabrics.

The exhibition is in the Treasury Hall of the XVIth  century. This is only a small part of the collection. These objects are exhibited for the first time.