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.
03.08.2011
A meeting with the filmmaker and the People’s artist of the Russian Federation Nicolay Dostal was organized in the conference-hall of the museum.
He made friends with the museum during the shooting of the film “Schism”. N.Dostal wanted to thank the employees of the museum and the townspeople for a help during the shooting of the film. His speech was very interesting. He told about some interesting moments of the shooting, about the actors and some secrets which the ordinary viewers won’t see. The interest to this meeting was rather great. The representatives of mass-media and those present asked N.Dostal many questions.
