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History of the Museum

1. The Main Steps of the Museum Activity
  • documents
  • chronicle
    •  2.History of the scientific research
  • personalities
  • memoirs
  • restoration
    •  3.History of the educational activity

    Scientific Research
  • conferences and seminars
  • participation in the exhibitions
  • scientific works, articles
  • editions
  • restoration
  • expeditions:
    •  -- archaeological
    -- collecting monuments of culture and history

    The educational activity
  • celebrations
  • excursion
  • participation in festivals, competitions, exhibitions
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    Rus Eng

    The Main Steps of the Museum Activity (page 7)


    1975.The Exhibition of Folk Art. Tokyo. Intensive collecting and research provided a good stimulus for the new expositions determining a new period in the Museum history at the beginning of 1970s. The new Sacristy prepared by T.N. Manushina. 4. 600 square meters were occupied by the systematic exhibition complex: “History of the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra”, “Necropolis of the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra”, “The Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra and Methods of its Restoration”, “Old Russian Painting of the 14th – 17th cc.”, “Old Russian Applied Art of the 14th – 17th cc.”, “Russian Art of the 18th – early 20th cc.”, “Russian Folk Art of the 18th –early 20th cc.”, “Contemporary Applied and Decorative Art”.

    The Conference on the collecting of new items. T.V. Nikilayeva delivering a report. The exhibition complexes gave a comprehensive idea of the development of Russian art in the course of seven centuries and of the role and significance of the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra in Russian history. The unique architectural ensemble and the Museum treasures permitted to declare Sergiev Posad (Zagorsk) a tourist center (according to the statement of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR of January 24, 1969) and include it into a group of towns forming the Golden Ring of Russia.

    1986. The excavation of Kikino settlement. In 1980s the Museum scientific work included a new field – local archeology. Since that time the materials, documents, works of art have been regularly collected, the archeological surveys and excavations have been carried out, interesting exhibitions have been organized. In 1997, the Museum organized the first international conference “The Stone Age of the European Plains”. It was based on the scientific achievements in the investigation of the Sergiev Posad district.

    1980. The 6oth anniversary of the Museum. From the left – Mayasova N.A. – a research worker of the Moscow Kremlin Museums, Popesky T.A. – Director of the Museum.

    At the same period the Museum research workers prepared all necessary scientific and technical documents to inscribe the architectural ensemble of the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra on the UNESCO List of the World Cultural Heritage in 1993. The scientific research was reflected in the regular conferences. In 1960 – 1988, 22 conferences and 16 seminars were organized, there were presented over 100 reports on different problems of the museum work.


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