Restoration of exhibits in Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve is in full swing!

The meeting of the restoration council was held in the Scientific and Storage Department of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve on March 31. They considered some issues of return and handing out of articles for restoration and also approved the activity reports of the fine art restorers.

29 exhibits were restored in the museum in the first quarter of 2017.

Six restored articles were returned to the museum from two branches of the All-Russian Art Research and Restoration Centre named after Academician I.E. Grabar located in Kostroma and Vologda: three wooden sculptures, the picture of B.I. Gorbunov “A Girl on the Shore”, the icon “The Virgin Hodegetria” and the headdress of a married Russian peasant woman.

Most of the articles were restored by the employees of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve. Fine art restorer A.A. Borodulina presented two restored items from the collection “Folk Textile”: paired pieces for a towel made of linen and decorated with red embroidery and needle lace. Before restoration, they had considerable deformations, were dirty and some of their fragments were lost. Now they have been restored and can be exhibited.

Fine art restorer S.M. Smirnova completed restoration of an article from the collection “Metal”. This item is likely to be a fragment of the canopy made above the shrine of St. Kirill Belozersky in 1804. This supposition is based on the photos taken by S.N. Prokudin-Gorsky in the Church of St. Kirill in the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery in 1907. Similar details were situated under the eaves between the flounces of velvet.

Museum restorers S.M. Smirnova, N.V. Petukhov, A.S. Rubtsov and A.R. Polyakov introduced their reports on the completion of restoration of 18 items from the following collections: “Metal”, “Old Russian Painting” and “Wood”.