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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 Staff Project Manager Tatiana Alekseeva |
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