Topical meetings: The Mysteries of the Siberian Collection of Peter the Great. A meeting with E. F. Korolkova, custodian in the Department of Archaeology, Art Criticism PhD
6 March 2009

Concert evenings: The "patriarchs" Bach, Handel, Giotto. The first concert evening of the Music and Painting. Associations cycle in the Assembly Hall of the Menshikov Palace
7 March 2009

III International Festival Dedication to Maestro
9-15 March 2009

Exhibition: The Cooperative for Proletarian Art of Friedrich Brass.
A Collection of German Avant-guard in the Soviet Russia
13 March 2009 - 28 June 2009

Meeting: Meeting with Georgy Vilinbachov, Deputy Director of the State Hermitage, and Aleksandr Dydykin, Head of the General Staff department, as part of the "Hermitage and Hermitage People" programme. Starts at 6 pm.
18 March, 2009

Exhibition: Boris Smelov
20 March 2009 - 28 June 2009

Conference: "Boris Smelov: A Retrospective". Round-table discussion as part of an educational programme dedicated to Boris Smelov's exhibition at the General Staff Building. To be held at the General Staff Building, Pink Hall. Starts at 6 pm.
21 March 2009

Topical meetings: Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. A meeting with the chief custodian of Stedelijk Museum Geurt Imanse
26 March 2009

Tomcat Day
28 March 2009

Concert evenings: "Sons of harmony" Mozart. Vatto. The second concert evening of the Music and Painting. Associations cycle in the Assembly Hall of the Menshikov Palace
28 March 2009

Exhibition: The Curiosity Chamber of Books at the State Hermitage Museum
1 April 2009 - 7 June 2009

The Next Meeting of the Hermitage Friends' Club
2 April 2009

Meeting: Youth Educational Center . "Unknown Smelov", meeting at the exhibition as part of an educational programme dedicated to Boris Smelov's exhibition at the General Staff Building. Host: Nal Podolskiy. Starts at 6 pm.
4 April 2009

Workshop: Youth Educational Center . Aron Zinshtein's workshops
8-26 April 2009

Meeting: Youth Educational Center . Meeting with photo artist Aleksandr Kitaev as part of an educational programme dedicated to Boris Smelov's exhibition at the General Staff Building. To be held at the exposition. Starts at 6 pm.
11 April 2009

Exhibition: Unknown Holland. Paintings by the 17-th century masters restored with support of the Foundation Hermitage Friends in the Netherlands
13 April 2009 - 20 May 2009

Conference: Art of Jewelry and Material Culture Seminar
14-18 April 2009

Workshop: Youth Educational Center . Art-project by Nina Vergebinskaya-Rabinovich. 19 April Nina Vergebinskaya-Rabinovich's workshops. Start at 4 pm.
16 April 2009

Exhibition: The Mystery of the Golden Mask
21 Apryl 2009 - 6 September 2009

Conference: Round table discussion "Secret of the Golden Mask", dated to the exhibition of the same name. Start at 2 pm.
24 April 2009

Meeting: Youth Educational Center . Evening at the "Spanish Club" section. Starts at 3 pm.
25 April 2009

Thematic meetings: Decorative Ensembles by Hubert Robert (1733-1808). A meeting with Ekaterina Vadimovna Deryabina, Custodian of the French Painting Collection of the 18th century
15 May 2009

Concert evening: Young American composers Mathew van Brink, Ramon Castello (the School of Music at Boston University, USA). The Big Lecture Hall of the Youth Centre (General Staff Building, 4th floor) . Starts at 5 pm.
15 May 2009

Concert evenings: Romantic Wanderers. Schubert. Friedrich. The fourth concert evening of the Music and Painting. Associations series in the Assembly Hall of the Menshikov Palace
16 May 2009

Meeting: Youth Educational Center. "The Tradition of Art Photography of St. Petersburg". Meeting at the exhibition as part of an educational programme dedicated to Boris Smelov's exhibition at the General Staff Building. Host: Alexander Kitaev. The Big Lecture Hall of the Youth Centre (General Staff Building, 4th floor). Starts at 3 pm.
16 May 2009

Conference: Youth Educational Center . Concluding student conference. The Big Lecture Hall of the Youth Centre (General Staff Building, 4th floor). Starts at 12 am.
17 May 2009

Exhibition: "Masterpieces of the European enamel XII - beginning of XX century" in the State Novgorod Museum
18 May 2009 - 27 September 2009

Exhibition: Afro Basaldella. The Colour of Emotion.
The exhibition is devoted to the works of the greatest Italian abstractionist Afro Basaldella (1912 - 1976)
19 May 2009 - 20 September 2009

Final Season Event in the Hermitage Friends' Club
19 May, 2009

Opening of the Permanent Exhibition: The Antiquities of Siberia (earlier Iron Age - the Middle Ages)
Halls 28-32, the ground floor of the Winter Palace
20 May, 2009

Meeting: The First Publication project presentation within the scope of the Hermitage Environment project.
The General Staff Building. The Pink Hall. Starts at 18.00
20 May, 2009

Conference: "Heritage". To the 140th Anniversary since the date of the birth of Jakov Ivanovich Smirnov (1869-1918)
20-21 May 2009

Art project: Video art by the group ESCAPE. Demonstration of projects for the period 1999-2009 and the new video "100 prohibitions". The Big Lecture Hall of the Youth Centre (General Staff Building, 4th floor) . Starts at 5 pm.
22 May 2009

Concert evenings: Grotesques. Hindemith, Shostakovich, Shnitke. Picasso. The fifth concert evening of the Music and Painting. Associations series in the Assembly Hall of the Menshikov Palace
23 May 2009

Meeting: Youth Educational Center. "Henri Cartier-Bresson". Meeting at the exhibition as part of an educational programme dedicated to Boris Smelov's exhibition at the General Staff Building. The Big Lecture Hall of the Youth Centre (General Staff Building, 4th floor). Starts at 3 pm.
23 May 2009

Conference: 31th Cervantes's Readings. Jointly with the Russian Literature Institute (the Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences
26 May 2009

Exhibition: Renoir. Compositions with Stairs. From the Revived Masterpieces series
26 May 2009 - 6 September 2009

Exhibition: The Perfect Victory. To the 300th Anniversary of the Battle of Poltava
29 May 2009 - 20 September 2009

Art Project: Presentation of two video works by Bill Viola, The First Dream (Hatsu-Yume) and The Passing. The presentation is to be held in connection with the celebration of the 10th anniversary of PRO ARTE Institute
31 May, 2009
The registration can be done by e-mail edcentre@hermitage.ru or by phone +7 (812) 710-95-30

Exhibition: Precious Filigree of the Orient of XVII-XIX Centuries. From the Collections of the State Hermitage
State Stone-Cutting and Jewelry Art History Museum in Ekaterinburg
1 June 2009 - 28 September 2009

Exhibition: The Qur'ans of Daghestan
5 June 2009 - 6 September 2009

Workshop: Youth Educational Center . Thomas Werner's workshop as part of a joint photography project of members of "The Art of Photography" section and students of Parsons School of Design Photography (USA). (Thomas Werner's workshop is scheduled to open on 11, 14 June, 2009 at 3 pm)
10 June 2009

Press-conference devoted to the opening of the Hermitage • Amsterdam Centre
To be started at 13:00
10 June 2009

Conference: Scientific Session, devoted to the 80th Anniversary since the date of the birth of Evgeniya Semenovna Shchukina
18 June 2009

Exhibition: At the Russian Court: Palace and Protocol in the 19th Century
The Hermitage • Amsterdam Centre
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
20 June 2009 - 31 January 2010

Exhibition: "The Beautiful One Has Come." Masterpieces of Portraiture from the Egyptian Museum, Berlin
23 June 2009 - 20 September 2009

Exhibition: The Azure and Gold of Limoges. Twelfth - to Fourteenth - Century Enamels
23 June 2009 - 7 February 2010

Conference: Petersburg Egyptology Readings - 2009
23-25 June 2009

International Gala Banquet in the Winter Palace
26 June 2009

Exhibition: Wim Delvoye. D11
26 June 2009 - 6 September 2009

Exhibition: Gifts to the Hermitage presented by the Il Cigno Galileo Galilei Publishing House
26 June 2009 - 5 July 2009

Opening of the permanent exhibition Culture and Art of Japan
30 June 2009

Press-conference: International Grand Waltz Festival
The Hermitage Theatre. Beginning at 13:00
6 July 2009

Donation of Aksel-Motors company car to the Hermitage
Palace Square, Beginning at 14:00
6 July 2009

Press-conference: Greater Hermitage Music Festival
The Hermitage Theatre. Beginning at 13:00
7 July 2009

Concert: 9th International Festival Greater Hermitage Music
Courtyard of the New Hermitage. Beginning at 19:00
9 July 2009

Concert: 8th International Grand Waltz Festival
The Armorial Room of the Winter Palace. Beginning at 19:00
10 July 2009

Programme for Journalists of the Hermitage White Nights Pool
Rooms, attics and roofs of the Hermitage. Beginning at 19:00
10 July 2009

Concert: 8th International Grand Waltz Festival
The Armorial Room of the Winter Palace. Beginning at 19:00
11 July 2009

Concert: 8th International Grand Waltz Festival
The Armorial Room of the Winter Palace. Beginning at 19:00
12 July 2009

Concert: 8th International Grand Waltz Festival
The Hermitage Theatre. Beginning at 19:00
13 July 2009

Exhibition: Fecit ad vivum. Portraits of Artists in Western European Engravings. 16th - 18th centuries
14 July 2009 - 25 October 2009

Ceremonial meeting dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Fire Brigade of the Hermitage
16 July 2009

Concert: 8th International Grand Waltz Festival
The Armorial Room of the Winter Palace. Beginning at 19:00
19 July 2009

Concert: 8th International Grand Waltz Festival
The Armorial Room of the Winter Palace. Beginning at 19:00
20 July 2009

Exhibition: Relics of the Varyag Cruiser
25 July 2009 - 16 August 2009

Press-conference devoted to the exhibition Treasury of the World. Jewelled Art of India in the Age of the Mughals. From the National Museum of Kuwait. The Hermitage Theatre. 13:00
7 August 2009

Exhibition: Treasury of the World. Jewelled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals
7 August 2009 - 29 November 2009

A ceremony of handing over the collages made by Korean students to the State Hermitage organized within the frames of the cooperation between the Korean Air Company and the State Hermitage. The Staraya Derevnya Restoration and Storage Centre. 10:00-18:00
12 August 2009

Session of the International Advisory Board. The State Hermitage
28-29 August 2009

Solemn ceremony dedicated to the 175th anniversary of the unveiling of the Alexander Column. Palace Square. 12:00
10 September 2009

Exhibition: Holy Images. Greek Icons from the Velimezis collection
11 September 2009 - 13 December 2009

Press-conference dedicated to the Holy Images. Greek Icons from Velimezis collection exhibition. The Hermitage Theatre. 13:00
11 September 2009

Exhibition: The Style of the Tsar: Italian Textiles in Russia. 13th - 18th centuries
Italy, Prato, Prato Textile Museum
18 September 2009 - 10 January 2010

Exhibition: Children of Gods. Antique Heroes in Ancient and Contemporary Art
The Hermitage-Kazan Exhibition Centre, Tatarstan
22 September 2009 - 28 March 2010

Exhibition: Satsuma ceramics of Japan in the State Hermitage Collection
25 September 2009 - 13 December 2009

Students' Day at the State Hermitage Museum
4 October 2009

Exhibition:  The 16th-17th Centuries Spanish Paintings from the Hermitage Collection
Castle of the Visconti, Pavia, Italy
9 October 2009  – 17 January 2010

Exhibition: Russian Collectors
Art Gallery of Lipetsk Region, Lipetsk
13 October 2009 – 28 February 2010

Exhibition: Georg Kolbe. Drawings in blue ink
14 October 2009 - 17 January 2010

Exhibition: Dance. By Centenary of Sergei Dyagilev's Russian Seasons
14 October 2009 - 17 January 2010

Young Artists Forum
The Hermitage Theatre, 10.00
15 October 2009

The New Season in the Hermitage Friends' Club
16 October 2009

Day of the Department of Museum Studies and Protection of Monuments of St Petersburg State University
Students Initiation Ceremony
Restoration and Storage Centre of the State Hermitage
19 October 2009

Exhibition: Sea and Navigation in Antique Culture
The Museum of the World Ocean, Kaliningrad
23 October 2009 – 9 March 2010

Exhibition: Newspeak. British Art Now
25 October 2009 - 17 January 2010

Conference: Readings commemorating Vladimir Frantsevich Levinson-Lessing (1893-1972)
28 October 2009

Session of the Hermitage Academic Council
29 October 2009

Exhibition: The Decisive Battle. On the Occasion of the 300th Anniversary of the Battle of Poltava
Assumption Belfry and One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace, Moscow Kremlin Museums
10 November 2009 - 10 March 2010

Lecture: Sensation. The Royal Academy of Science (London), the Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York). From the Sensation! The Most Famous Exhibition Art Projects of the 20th - 21st Centuries in the Museums of the World series of lectures to the Newspeak. British Art Now exhibition. The Anteroom. Begins at 18:00
11 November 2009

Conference: Ceramics and porcelain of the Far East. Problems of style and mutual interaction
11-12 November 2009

Session of the Hermitage Academic Council. The Council Room 16:00
12 November 2009

Topical meeting: New exhibition projects in the museum. Curator's viewpoint. Meeting with Berndt Arell, Director at KIASMA Contemporary Art Museum (Helsinki, Finland). Within the framework of the educational programme to the Newspeak. British Art Now exhibition. The Hermitage Youth Educational Centre.
13 November 2009

Lecture: Georges Seurat
Dedicated to 150th birth anniversary
Begins at 13:00
14 November 2009

Topical meeting: The Crimea Sketches. Literature composition and presentation of works by Sophia Nyarvyanen and Irina Parshakova, members of the Hermitage Student Club. The Hermitage Youth Educational Centre.
15 November 2009

Conference: Peter the Great's Time in Persons, 2009
17-18 November 2009

Lecture: Moving Pictures. Cinema and Video in Contemporary Art (History of Video Art with Demonstration). Chrissie Iles, the curator of Film and Video at the Whitney Museum of American Art (the USA). The Hermitage Youth Centre. Begins at 18:00
18 November 2009

Topical meeting: Newspeak. British Art Now exhibition tour. Begins at 18:00
18 November 2009

Topical meeting: The Russian Seasons in Paris. Meeting with Tatiana Kuzovleva, ballet historian
20 November 2009

Art-project: Cyberfest-2009. The Second International Cyber Art Festival at the Hermitage Youth Centre. Opens at 17:00
20 November 2009

Exhibition: On the 150th Anniversary of Foundation of the Imperial Archaeological Commission
Part I 21 November 2009 - 27 November 2009 (The Foyer of the Hermitage Theatre)
Part II 13 December 2009 (Antechamber)

Conference, dedicated to 150th anniversary of the Imperial Archaeological Committee foundation
Opening - The Hermitage Theatre at 11:00, later on - at the Council Room
21 November 2009

Art-project: master-class of the Cyber Art Festival participants. The Hermitage Youth Centre. Begins at 16:00
21 November 2009

Topical meeting: Romantic images of Dream Factory. Costumes in films
21 November 2009

Conference: On the 150th Anniversary of Foundation of the Imperial Archaeological Commission
21 November 2009

Concert-evenings: Performance of the British These New Puritans band within the framework of the educational programme to the Newspeak. British Art Now exhibition.
23 November 2009

Lecture: Louise Bourgeois. The State Hermitage. 2000. Centre Pompidou. Paris. 2008. From the Sensation! The Most Famous Exhibition Projects of the 20th - 21st Centuries Art in the Museums of the World series of lectures to the Newspeak. British Art Now exhibition. The Anteroom. Begins at 18:00
25 November 2009

Exhibition: Treasures of the Sarmatians
Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum, Mannheim, Germany
25 November 2009 - 25 May 2010

Topical meeting: Dedicated to 185th birth anniversary of Jozef Israels . Meeting with art historian, curator of the 19th century Dutch Art of the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) Jenny Reinerts
26 November 2009

Meeting, dedicated to the memory of Pavel Gubchevsky
The Council Room. Begins at 14:00
26 November 2009

Exhibition: Russian Hunting and Ceremonial Weapon of the 16th - 19th Centuries from the Hermitage Collection
The State Museum of Gold and Precious Metals, Astana, the Republic of Kazakhstan.
27 November 2009 - 27 January 2010

Exhibition: European Porcelain for the Russian Imperial Court from the Hermitage Collection
Palazzo Madama, Torino, Italy.
30 November 2009 - 14 February 2010

Internet meeting with Mikhail Piotrovsky (timed to the Hermitage Days). The Rastrelli Gallery, CafeMax. 11:00
30 November 2009

Topical meeting: Newspeak. British Art Now exhibition tour. Begins at 18:00
2 December 2009

Conference: International Conference on "The Phenomenon of the Bosporan Kingdom"
2 December 2009

Conference: Readings in memoriam of Valentin Ryabtsevich
2-3 December 2009

The Hermitage Friends' Day
December 2009

Exhibition: The State Hermitage Museum in Publications. The Hermitage - 2008 in Photographs
4 - 20 December 2009

Lecture: Modern Cinema of Great Britain. Film exhibition within the framework of the educational programme to the Newspeak. British Art Now exhibition. The Anteroom. Begins at 18:00
4 December 2009

Topical meeting: Meeting with the USA Consul General Sheila Gwaltney. Within the framework of A Very Important Guest of the Youth Centre programme. The Hermitage Youth Centre. Begins at 18:00
4 December 2009

Exhibition: Four tables of the Empress Catherine II. Works from the Collections of the State Hermitage
Exhibition Hall of Oita Prefecture, Japan
7 December 2009 - 7 February 2010

Exhibition: The Enamels of the World. 1700 - 2000. From the Khalili Collection
8 December 2009 - 14 March 2010

Lecture: Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Francis Picabia. Tate Modern Gallery. London. 2008. From the Sensation! The Most Famous Exhibition Projects of the 20th - 21st Centuries Art in the Museums of the World series of lectures to the Newspeak. British Art Now exhibition. The Anteroom. Begins at 18:00
9 December 2009

Topical meeting: Modern Artist in a Museum. Artist's viewpoint: master-class of Sergey Shekhovtsov (Moscow). The Hermitage Youth Educational Centre within the framework of the educational programme to the Newspeak. British Art Now exhibition.
11 December 2009

Art-project: Newspeak. St Petersburg Version work contest among young artists of St Petersburg within the framework of the educational programme to the Newspeak. British Art Now exhibition. Beginning of summing up.
15 December 2009

Topical meeting: Newspeak. British Art Now exhibition tour. Begins at 18:00
16 December 2009

Lecture: Modern Cinema of Great Britain. Film demonstration within the framework of the educational programme to the Newspeak. British Art Now exhibition. The Anteroom. Begins at 18:00
18 December 2009

Concert-evenings: Poetic Italy. Christmas evening of the Italian Club section of the Hermitage Student Club. The Hermitage Youth Centre. Begins at 16:00
19 December 2009

Lecture: Damien Hirst. PinchukArtCentre. Kiev. 2009. From the Sensation! The Most Famous Exhibition Projects of the 20th - 21st Centuries Art in the Museums of the World series of lectures to the Newspeak. British Art Now exhibition. The Anteroom. Begins at 18:00
23 December 2009

Art-project: Report presentation of works by the students of the Creative Photography section. The Hermitage Youth Centre
23 December 2009

Exhibition: The Echo of the Russian Seasons. From the Christmas Gift series
25 December 2009 - 28 March 2010

Exhibition: We draw and paint in the Hermitage
26 December 2009 - 24 January 2010

Art-project: Report presentation of works by the students of the Artistic Workshop section. The Hermitage Youth Centre
27 December 2009

Conference: Archeological Reporting Session of the State Hermitage
December 2009

Hermitage Days - 2009
December 2009