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Began the celebration in honor of the 250th anniversary of the Hermitage – Interfax

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On Saturday evening festivities opened 3D-performance “Ball of history” projected on the facade of the General Staff of the Hermitage

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Moscow. December 7th. INTERFAX.RU – The State Hermitage Museum from 7 to 9 December 2014 is celebrating its 250th anniversary, the press service of the museum.

The main events to mark the anniversary, will be held on Sunday, the day of St. Catherine. Hermitage present edition, specially issued for the anniversary, in the foyer of the Hermitage Theatre will open the photo exhibition “Hermitage. Visit”. On the same day the museum staff will lay flowers at the gravestone of Catherine the Great in the Peter and Paul Cathedral.

The main event will be the signing of an agreement on the establishment of the center “Hermitage-Vladivostok” and opened a permanent exhibition in the General Staff.

On the International Day of Friends of the Hermitage, December 8, will be held presentation of new equipment Laboratory Science restoration of works of applied art in the Restoration and Storage Centre “old village”, as well as the opening of a major exhibition “Hermitage Her Imperial Majesty” in the Nicholas Hall of the Winter Palace. In addition to representatives of the companies “Hermitage Friends” in the United Kingdom, Israel, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, the United States will hold a special excursion program.

will complete the celebrations on December 9 stroll through the permanent and temporary exhibitions for the representatives of cultural institutions and members of the St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum, as well as the discovery of several permanent exhibitions. The central event of the last day of the celebration will be the presentation after the restoration of the Great Church of the Winter Palace.

As previously reported, on the occasion of the anniversary of the Hermitage museum entrance will be free on 10 December. In addition, every Thursday in December will not be charged for visiting the eastern wing of the General Staff of the Hermitage.

History of the Hermitage

The State Hermitage Museum – the largest in Russia and one of the the world’s largest art and cultural-historical museum. History of the Hermitage has its origins in 1764, when Catherine the Great received from Berlin 317 valuable paintings worth a total of 183 thousand. Thalers from the private collection of paintings Johanna Ernst Gotzkowski. Initially, this collection is housed in the Small Hermitage.

In 1852, much of the sprawling collection was formed and opened to the public the Imperial Hermitage.

Modern State Hermitage Museum is a complex museum complex. The main exposition of the museum occupies five buildings along the Neva river in the center of St. Petersburg. The main building of the Hermitage is considered to be the Winter Palace. To date, the museum’s collection has about three million works of art and monuments of world culture, from the Stone Age to the present century.

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