The Hermitage News

Yemeni Cultural Heritage Week – The World’s Museums Unite in Support of Yemen

75th Anniversary of the Department of the History of Russian Culture

On 26 April 2016, the Council Hall was the setting for a scholarly session of the Department of the History of Russian Culture held to mark the 75th anniversary of the department’s formation.

A Panel Talk with the Art-collective Microsillons (Geneva, Switzerland)

On April 21, the Swiss collective microsillons has presented a selection of its projects at the Youth Educational Centre of the State Hermitage Museum.

Presentation of the New Issue of the Hermitage Magazine

On 15 April 2016 the New Issue of the Hermitage Magazine was presented at the General Staff Building.

The Empress and the Gardener

Cosmonautics Day in the State Hermitage

“55 years ago an event took place that people could have only dreamt of! The heavens, inhabited by the gods and shining with constellations, were conquered for the first time by a human being!

A Round Table devoted to the exhibition “Catherine the Great and Stanisław August: Two Enlightened Monarchs”

On 12 April 2016, the State Hermitage hosted a session of a round table devoted to the exhibition “Catherine the Great and Stanisław August: Two Enlightened Monarchs”.

Press Conference as part of the Hermitage Days in Yekaterinburg

On 5 April 2016, the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts was the venue for a press conference devoted to the Hermitage Days in Yekaterinburg, events marking the museum’s 80th anniversary and the Hermitage–Urals Exhibition Centre.

Hermitage Days in Yekaterinburg. Continuation of the conference “The Museum and War: the Fate of People, Collections and Buildings”

On 5 April 2016, on the second day of the conference “The Museum and War: the Fate of People, Collections and Buildings”, Mikhail Piotrovsky, General Director of the State Hermitage, gave an address.

The State Hermitage clarifies

In connection with the briefing by Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky, General Director of the State Hermitage, and interviews given to a number of the mass media, the State Hermitage clarifies:

The Hermitage Days in Yekaterinburg Continue

On 31 March, as part of the Hermitage Days in Yekaterinburg, the bookshop 100,000 Books became the venue for an encounter with Vitaly Dymarsky, Editor-in-Chief of the history magazine Diletant, a federal-level media-partner of the State Hermitage.

Reopening of the Pavilion Hall after Refurbishment

On 1 April 2016, the Pavilion Hall of the Small Hermitage was reopened to visitors.

Opening of the exhibition “Five Symbols of Happiness: Well-Wishing in Chinese Art” at the Hermitage–Vyborg Exhibition Centre

On 1 April 2016, at the Hermitage-Vyborg Exhibition Centre, Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky, General Director of the State Hermitage, and Madame Go Min, General Consul of the People’s Republic of China, formally opened the exhibition “Five Symbols of Happiness: Well-Wishing in Chinese Art”.

Second Session of the Weaponry Seminar in the Hermitage

On 31 March 2016, the second session of the Weaponry Seminar took place in the Hermitage.

Press Conference: The Hermitage in 2016. Exhibitions, events, projects

On 31 March 2016, the press centre of the Interfax North-West news agency was the venue for a press conference on “The Hermitage in 2016. Exhibitions, events, projects” at which Mikhail Piotrovsky, General Director of the State Hermitage, spoke about the museum’s plans for the current year.

The Hermitage Days in Yekaterinburg Continue

On 30 March, the All-Russian theoretical and practical conference on “The Reflection of the History of the 20th and 21st Centuries in Museum Collections and Displays” began work.

New Issue of the Hermitage Magazine

The latest issue of the Hermitage magazine, No 22, has now come out.

Hermitage Days in Yekaterinburg. Press Conference in TASS

From 30 March to 6 April 2016, Hermitage Days will be held in Yekaterinburg. That event and the 145th anniversary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Studies Museum were the subject of a press conference held on 29 March 2016 in the TASS press centre.

Mikhail Piotrovsky’s Briefing on the Reconstruction of Palmyra

On 28 March 2016, Mikhail Piotrovsky, General Director of the State Hermitage, gave a briefing in connection with the liberation and future reconstruction of the Syrian city of Palmyra.

Donation to the State Hermitage of Yelena Obrastsova’s Costumes and Accessories

On 28 March 2016, costumes and accessories that had belonged to Yelena Vasilyevna Obraztsova (1939–2015) were formally presented to the State Hermitage by Yelena Viacheslavovna Makarova, the great Russian singer’s daughter.