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The STaTe hermiTage muSeum weBSiTe in 2010
http://hermitagemuseum.org
For over ten years the website of the Hermitage Museum
has been providing its multi-million audience with a wealth
of information on the museum, its collections, exhibitions
and other events of its life. The news “footage” for 2010
covered 132 events and carried 32 articles devoted to the
year’s temporary exhibitions in the Hermitage.
Today’s Hermitage pages on the Internet are not merely
a source of information, but also a means of opinion exchange
on the topical issues of cultural life and museum
policies. The section headed “Inviting to Discussion” includes
a column “Your Opinion of the Hermitage Museum’s
Social Programme”, where the user finds materials on
the current system of discounts and benefits for some categories
of visitors, as well as users’ opinion of the museum’s
social policy. (This Section exists only in Russian so far.)
Emails received by the Guestbook unit on the Hermitage
site make it possible to understand the interests of our audience.
In 2010, after the end of the summer season, our
Visitors’ Letters section (in Russian) published emails containing
remarks and suggestions regarding the terms of ad-
Special programmeS
arT and muSic – aSSociaTionS
• shadows of Versailles. “theatre” of Court Portraiture
• “to Vivaldi’s Music…”. Faces of Venice (Canaletto,
Guardi and Longi)
• “Romantic Classicists”. the Earthly Paradise of Hans
von Mare
• Goethe: “stop the Moment!” the Light and Colour
of Impressionism
• “Quo vadis?” the Image of Christ in Early Christian art
• year of Italy in Russia. Marking the Day of st. Cecily,
Patron saint of Music
• year of Italy in Russia. alexander Pushkin: “Of sterling
Beauty she’s the Purest of samples”. Raphael’s Madonnas
hermiTage collecTionS
Theme meetings with the Hermitage staff resemble sessions
arranged by Catherine II in her day.
• Book Kunstkammer in the Hermitage. an Evening
in the Hermitage Library
• “at the Origins of the Oriental Department”.
yakov Ivanovich smirnov (1869–1918)
• Fyodor Glinka: “For the Russians your Image is
both Charming and Holy…” From the Music Library
of Empress Elizabeth
• Raphael in the Hermitage. alexander Pushkin: “Of sterling
Beauty she’s the Purest of samples”. Briefly about
the Conestabile Madonna
mission to the museum, accompanied by the Hermitage’s
comments on all the questions raised in the emails.
The website acquaints its visitors with the museum’s plans
for overall development, including its target of creating
new museum facilities in the eastern wing of the General
Staff building by the year 2014, the 250th anniversary of the
Hermitage State Museum. The first stage of the restoration
work in the eastern wing of the building, which ended
in 2010, was given detailed coverage on the website pages.
The life of the Hermitage is reflected in video picks (in Russian),
which is a new developing trend of the Hermitage
website. Thus, for example, a number of video films were
produced in 2010 – such as “A Glass Spectacle: Antique
Glass in the Hermitage”, “Factory Owner Likhachyova’s
Hoard”, “Oriental Scholar A. Ivanov’s Story of the Art of
Kubachi Village in Dagestan”, “For the Centenary of the
Dance and Music Panels by Henri Matisse” and “Knights Returning”
video sketch.
New materials about the collection of European and Russian
weapons have been added to the division “Collection
Highlights”. Some interesting pages from the history of the
Hermitage and the history of technology are reflected
in the respective articles found in the History section.
• For the 250th anniversary of the Hermitage in 2014.
From the History of the Imperial Residence.
a Court Ball
“the 18th Century – from Peter I to Catherine II”
“Dazzling Balls in the Reign of Nicholas I”
“Fancy Dress Ball in 1903”
pariSian SalonS
• “Parisian Photo album”. artistic Milieu and Fashion
of the Early 20th Century
• Church of Notre-Dame de toute Grâce du Plateau
d’assy (1937–1950)
• Renaissance of Great Christian art in twentieth-Century
France
“round The coSTume”
• New years in the Last Century. yu. Plotnikova and
st. Petersburg art Collectors
• Venetian Carnival. Display of Costumes Produced
by ye. Rusanova’s studio of Historical Costume
duTch drawing roomS
• Van Gogh. Potato Eaters – archetype aspect
• New Information about Certain Dutch Paintings
from the Hermitage Collection
• Leonart Bramer, Photography Master from Delft
• “Living on the shore”. the sea in the Life and art
of Holland
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lecTureS
amsterdam, netherlands
Lecture Hall in the Hermitage • Amsterdam Centre
Lectures accompanying From Matisse to Malevich.
Pioneers of Modern Art from the Hermitage exhibition
vyborg
Lecture Hall in the Hermitage • Vyborg Centre
Lecture series: “Pages from the History of Renaissance
Art”
Lecture series: “Pages from the History of the Art of Classical
Antiquity”
Kazan
Lecture Hall in the Hermitage • Kazan Centre
“Great Monuments of World Art”
“Visiting the World’s Cities and Museums”
• Frans Hals – Viewed from the 21st Century
• Leonart Bramer, Photography Master from Delft
• anna Pavlovna Romanova, a Russian Princess
on the Dutch throne
hermiTage Through The employee enTrance
Special programme for the staff of the museums of St. Petersburg
and the Leningrad Region
• Issues Involved in the Keeping and attributing
of artistic Weapons
• Visit to the Laboratory for sientific Restoration
of Precious Metals
• Photographic Materials. Peculiarities of Work with
the Collection
• “Museum within the Museum”. Menshikov Palace
• Laboratory for Biological and Climate Control
• Collection of Japanese art. topical Issues of Exhibit
Mounting
• archive of the state Hermitage Museum
from The hermiTage To The veTeranS
of The greaT paTrioTic war
• “the Hermitage during the War”. Celebrating
the 65th Victory anniversary. Meeting
with the War Veterans in the Hermitage theatre
The Hermitage Assemblies. A Court Ball. “A Live Illustration”
to “Live Pictures” of Imperial Balls. Characters from the Hermitage paintings –
work by the Production Department of the Academy of Theatrical Art
vladimir
Vladimir-Suzdal Museum Reserve
Public lecture for the residents of Vladimir: “The Hermitage,
Its History, Buildings and Collections” – to preface
the opening of the exhibition entitled Images of Italy. Western
European Painting of the 17th to 19th Centuries from the
Hermitage.
volsk
Art Museum
Lecture: “From ‘A Hermit’s Nook’ to the Great Museum”
Saratov
A. Radishchev Museum of Fine Arts
Lecture to preface the opening of Spanish Art in the Hermitage
exhibition (to mark the 125th anniversary of the saratov
Museum)