The exhibition “Cultural Reality of the Moscow Region – 2008” organized in the “Crocus” exhibition complex in March, 22 – 25, gave an opportunity to see the results of restoration in the Moscow Region museums. The common pavilion, dedicated to this theme, included 14 items from the Sergiev Posad Museum. Our Museum has carried out restoration since the mid-1970s, when a special department was established. All museum restorers graduated from higher and specialized secondary education, then they were certificated by the commission of the Ministry for Culture of the Russian Federation. They regularly study in the Grabar Restoration Center and work to improve in their qualification.

Вetween 2005 and 2007, our specialists restored 102 items including 72 articles (icons, oil paintings, fragments of folk clothing and church vestments) for the new exhibition “The World of a Russian Village” in the Central building of the Historical and Cultural Complex “Konny Dvor”, for expositions “The Sacristy of the Trinity St. Sergius Lavra of the 14th – 19th cc.” and “Icons and Manuscripts of the 14th – 17th cc.”, for the temporary exhibitions inside and outside the Museum and 30 items from the Museum funds.

Our Museum was also represented in a separate hall where archeological materials were displayed. The regular excavations directed by H.D. V.I. Vishnevsky started at the Moscow Region territory in 1984 and went on for nearly a quarter of a century. School children – members of the archeological club took part in the excavations since 1983.The archeological collection (over 3000 items) has been formed which is partially displayed in the exposition “The Ancient Past of the Sergiev Posad District”.

In 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2006 the expedition discovered and researched a burial site of the Early Medieval period near the village of Ratkovo in the Alexandrov district, the Vladimir Region on the left bank of the Dubna river. It is a rare burial monument of the late Dyakovsky Culture ( the VII – IX th cc.) in the western part of the area between two rivers: the Volga and Oka. Now only three burial sites are known. On the investigated territory (387 sq. m) they found 1202 items – bronze decorations, iron knives, arrow heads, fragments of ceramic vessels, etc. The Museum prepared 7 posters and a booklet with information about the archeological excavations (design – Morozov K.N. with participation of Terenkov A.B.). The Museum stand at the exhibition was a success with specialist and visitors.