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inTernaTional adviSory Board of The STaTe hermiTage muSeum
SixTeenTh annual meeTing
The Sixteenth Meeting of the State
Hermitage Museum International
Advisory Board was held in St. Petersburg
on 27–28 August, 2010.
Traditionally, the discussions deal with
most pressing issues of the museum’s
development. As always, themes for
discussion were developed by the Director
of the State Hermitage Museum
Prof. Mikhail Piotrovsky. This year, the
Board members were invited to take
part in the round table “Contemporary
Art in the Hermitage: Approach
and Strategy” discussing the “Hermitage
20/21” Project. The questions
introduced for consideration by the
International Advisory Board included
exhibitions of contemporary art
scheduled for 2011–2014, results of
the latest contemporary art shows in
the Hermitage, approach and ideas
of the Advisory Committee on Contemporary
Art, strategies of acquiring
objects of “new art” for the museum,
and work with private collectors.
The Board members had a tour of
the reconstruction site in the eastern
wing of the General Staff building,
and visited two museums of contemporary
art that recently opened in
St. Petersburg: the New Museum and
the Erarta on Vasilievsky Island.
Members of the Hermitage Advisory
Committee on Contemporary Art, Sir
Norman Rosenthal, former Director
of the Exhibition Department of the
Royal Academy of Arts, London; Tim
Marlow, Director for Exhibitions,
White Cube Gallery, London, and
Geraldine Norman, Advisor for the
“Hermitage 20/21” Project, London,
were invited to take part in the working
sessions of the Advisory Board.
On 28 August the Members of the International
Advisory Board visited the
Gatchina State Museum Reserve.
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currenT memBerS
of The STaTe hermiTage muSeum inTernaTional adviSory Board:
Irène Bizot Ancien Administrateur général, Réunion des Musées
Nationaux, Paris
Mounir Bouchenaki Director-General, ICCROM, Rome
Michael Brand Director, J. Paul Getty Museum
Gabriele Finaldi Director Adjunto de Conservación e Investigación
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Stuart Gibson Secretary to the International Advisory Board
Former Director, Hermitage UNESCO Project
Henri Loyrette Président directeur général, Louvre, Paris
Neil MacGregor, Chairman Director, The British Museum, London
Henk van Os Former Director, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Alfred Pacquement Directeur du musée national d’art moderne
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Annamaria Petrioli Tofani Former Director, Uffizi, Florence
Svetlana Philippova Secretary to the International Advisory Board
Head, Hermitage Friends’ Office
Mikhail Piotrovsky Director, The State Hermitage Museum,
St. Petersburg
REtiREd mEmbERs
Reinhold Baumstark Director, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen,
Munich
J. Carter Brown Director Emeritus, The National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC
Wim Crouwel Former Director, Museum Boymans van Beuningen,
Amsterdam
Wolf-Dieter Dube Former Director, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Horst Gödicke Representative of the Director-General of UNESCO,
Paris
Alan Hancock Director, PROCEED, UNESCO, Paris
Anne d’Harnoncourt Director, The Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia
Michel Laclotte Directeur honoré du Musée du Louvre, Paris
Ronald de Leeuw Director, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Edmund Pillsbury Former Director, Kimbell Museum, Fort Worth
Françoise Rivière Assistant Director-General for Culture, UNESCO,
Paris
Paolo Viti Direttore Activita Culturale, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
InternatIonal aDVIsory boarD of the state hermItaGe museum
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