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.
02.08.2011
The international scientific-methodological conference “Presentation of the frescoes of Dionysius” will be held in the museum on the 13th and 14th September.
It is planned to discuss some questions about the study, restoration and preservation of the frescoes in the cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin and in the other analogous monuments. The participants of the conference will discuss some problems concerning the temperature and moisture conditions.
The problems mentioned above are very important. That’s why among those who is invited to the conference there is the Minister for Culture of the Russian Federation, the Governor of the Vologda region, the representatives of the Russian Committee of the International Council of the museums and others.
