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Petrozavodsk, April 30 – September 12, 2010 -
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The Architectural Ensemble of the Kizhi Pogost is a UNESCO World Heritage-listed site. The Kizhi island cultural historical and natural complex is included into the State Code of Cultural Heritage Sites of Special Value of the Russian Federation: The Church of the Transfiguration of Our Saviour, The Church of the Intercession and The Bell-Tower of the Kizhi Pogost.
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- “"Heavens" of Zaonezhye” open in Saint-Petersburg // August 10
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On August 12 the State Museum of History of Religion opens the exhibition “"Heavens" of Zaonezhye” from Kizhi Museum collections. The exhibition is part of the project, which won the grant of “Severstal” company in “Museums of Russian North” competition in 2008.
The exhibition presents 30 unique icons, painted in Russian Northern parts. The visitors will see the original ceiling decorations from ten chapels and churches of Karelia. The exhibition will run until September 26.
- Exhibition "Cherishing apparels from the past" (25 June —26 September) // July 19
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The ehxibition "Cherishing apparels from the past" runs from June 25 through September 26 at the Kizhi Museum Exhibition Hall.
The exhibition represents samples of ethnographic reconstructions of traditional female costumes in Olonets province of XIX – late XX centuries. The reconstructions were made by students of Faculty of Technology and Design of Karelian State Pedagogical Academy under the direction of Tatyana Yashkova, senior lecturer of Technology Department. - Illusions of the Old Town // June 25
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On June 26 within the Day of Petrozavodsk celebrations Kizhi museum invites visitors and guests of our city to historic quarter which will be temporarily turned into a historic theatre. Visitors are going to plunge into the atmosphere of old Russian provincial town and spectate recognizable, symbolical scenes of urban life and culture of XIX – XX centuries.
Town’s dancings, taking pictures in old-style clothes, townspeople dressed in old-fashioned costumes, handicraftsmen will create the real world of illusions of the past.
- Tourist Season–2010 is open! // May 13
- Exhibition "Roskin Family. Photorgraphs And Lives. 1904-1941" (07 May —20 June) // May 12
- Exhibition "Carpentry at Russian North" (30 April — 12 September) // April 29
- Exhibition "Easter Traditions Through Children's Art" (6 April — 2 May) // April 01
- Exhibition "Journey Into Antiquity" (26 February — 25 April) // February 25
- Exhibition "Ancestors’ Testament" (19 February – 21 March) // February 19
- Exhibition "Harmony Of Contrasts. Paintings of Badri Topuria an drawings of Anna Gryaznova" (January 18— February 14) // January 18
