• Receive visitors and help the administrators in the relaxation areas of the museum. Check on the right of access to halls and see that the visiting routes are being followed. Monitoring and supervision (Hospitality Service, Tourism Sector, Sector of Sociological Research, Department of Development and Marketing Research, Security Service).
  
  
• Assist in carrying out scientific research work: systematization and cataloguing of items in storage, restoration, archeological excavations (Department of Archeology of Europe and Western Siberia, Workshop of Furniture Restoration, Department of the Chief Architect).
  
  
• Translation of informational materials, help in handling documentation and preparing publications. Secretarial and courier work (Sector of Computer Technologies, Hospitality Service, Department of Archeology of Europe and Western Siberia, Press Service, Department of Development and Marketing Research).
  
  
• Development and implementation of design projects. Presentation of projects in the area of multimedia. Help in handling correspondence and using modern means of communication and IT (Club of Hermitage Friends, State Hermitage Storage Facility in Staraya Derevnya, Department of Archeology of Europe and Western Siberia, Research Library).
  
  
• Participation in international educational programs, seminars and conferences and help in organizing them. Teaching foreign languages and arranging language practice (Hospitality Service, the School Center pedagogic and methodology department, Research Library).
  
  
• Help with moving art objects and carrying out exhibitions, theatrical and concert events (Sector of Tourism, Hermitage Academy of Music, Hermitage Theatre, Department for Moving Exhibitions, Department of Western European Art, Research Library, Department of Materials and Technical Supply).

Instructions before starting on excavations

Archeological digs in the courtyards of the Hermitage (I)