New Premises of the Press Center
of the State Hermitage are Presented to the Public

On 14 January 2004 the new premises of the Press Center of the State Hermitage prepared during 2003 were presented to the public. The official address is 30, Dvortsovaya Embankment, apartment 3.

The Press Service of the State Hermitage was formed in 1996. Initially it was a section within the Hospitality Department, but in 1999 it was separated out as a self-standing unit of the museum. Among the tasks of the Press Service are publicizing the museum’s exhibitions and development plans, organizing and holding press conferences, preparing and publishing the annual report and the journal The Hermitage.

Repairs to the premises were carried out by the company ¾¾¾ "Betakom", whose General Director is P.V. Kavliugin. Air conditioning was installed by the company ZAO"Klimat Prof".

The new Press Center will not only provide working space to its staff, but also has facilities for holding briefings, working meetings and press conferences in-house.

The premises are equipped to enable journalists efficiently to prepare and dispatch materials to their publications without ever leaving the Press Center.

Our sponsors have provided equipment and media support for the museum’s work. Samsung Electronics, which has been a Corporate Member of the Club of Friends of the Hermitage since 1997, has lent a hand with technical equipment for the new Press Center. The Press Center now has the latest Samsung products in the field of computers, television and audio equipment.

During St Petersburg’s tricentenary year 2003, the company NIKOLAEV e:Consulting™ was designated as the “Official Supplier of IT Services to the State Hermitage".

This company now looks after IT work at the Press Center. Hermitage specialists have thereby been enabled to find whatever information they need from Russian sources, and also from sources in the USA, the countries of Europe, Asia, and Australia. All necessary information is supplied from 20,000 information sources throughout the world.

The State Hermitage and Samsung Electronics
A History of Cooperation

1997 - 1998 Grant of $100,000 for the program to create an entrance area in the Winter Palace
1999 - Grant of $12,500 for the creation of a multimedia information unit in the entrance area of the Winter Palace
2000 - 2001 - Grant of $30,000 to equip a lecture hall in the Auditorium of the State Hermitage, General Staff Building
2002 - 2003 – Grant of $100,000 for the program to supply equipment to assist the museum’s educational and public lecture activity as well as to equip the Press Center of the Hermitage
2003 - Grant of $10,800 for reconstruction of the multimedia information system using plasma displays for museum visitors in the entrance area of the Winter Palace.

Larissa Korabelnikova, Senior Curator
of Press and Public Relations Department, and
Mikhail Piotrovsky, State Hermitage Director

Vladimir Matveyev, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Development of the State Hermitage Museum

New office equipment for journalists

Elena Getmanskaya, Senior Curator
of Press and Public Relations Department