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The Hermitage News Newspaper
The Hermitage News newspaper is a publication for Russian and
foreign guests of the museum that assists in making up a personal walking
route along the rooms of the museum. Each issue (the newspaper is published
once every two months) contains of author's articles on temporary exhibitions,
permanent exhibitions and masterpieces from the Hermitage collection,
on music festivals and other events that take place with the participation
of the Hermitage. The newspaper also tells about books that were published
by the publishing house of the museum, work of the Youth Educational Centre
and the Children's Centre, about special programmes addressed to adult
visitors and about work of the Hermitage branches in Kazan, Amsterdam
and London. Moreover, materials on work of restorers and curators, i.e. materials
related to the side of the museum life that is the least familiar
but the most interesting to the visitors, are published there.
Talented journalists, writers and photographers of St Petersburg that
are being assisted by the museum employees create The Hermitage News.
The publication is distributed free of charge in the museum complex,
branches and exhibition centres of the Hermitage, at the largest hotels,
restaurants and banks of St Petersburg.
In the new issue of the newspaper (No.5/2009), please, read the interview
with the Director of the Hermitage Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky, who tells
about Muslim Art, its artistic language, its peculiarities and beauty.
Big articles are dedicated to work of the World Club of St Petersburg
Citizens, the history of the Pavilion Garden that once used to be a continuation
of the Pavilion Hall and to the new language of art, which is used as a 'spoken'
language by modern artists of Great Britain.
Contact Information
Telephone: (812) 314-93-53
Editorial office e-mail: hermitagenews@yandex.ru, guindina@yahoo.com
Advertising department e-mail: 2007hermitage@gmail.ru
Editorial Staff
Project Manager Tatiana Alekseeva
Editor-in-Chief Ekaterina Gindina
Designer Leonid Ilyin
Authors: Olga Bobrova, Maria Dubrovskaya, Yulia Kantor,
Tatiana Kudryavtseva, Mikhail Kuzmin, Ludmila Leusskaya, Sergey Matsenkov,
Dmitry Novik, Ekaterina Panikarovskaya, Olga Shervud
Photographers: Evgeny Sinyaver, Yury Molodkovets, Vladimir
Terebenin, Andrey Terebenin
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The Hermitage News
No.5/2009
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