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The Hermitage News Newspaper The Hermitage News newspaper is a publication for Russian and foreign guests of the museum that assists in making up a personal walking route along the rooms of the museum. Each issue (the newspaper is published once every two months) contains of author's articles on temporary exhibitions, permanent exhibitions and masterpieces from the Hermitage collection, on music festivals and other events that take place with the participation of the Hermitage. The newspaper also tells about books that were published by the publishing house of the museum, work of the Youth Educational Centre and the Children's Centre, about special programmes addressed to adult visitors and about work of the Hermitage branches in Kazan, Amsterdam and London. Moreover, materials on work of restorers and curators, i.e. materials related to the side of the museum life that is the least familiar but the most interesting to the visitors, are published there. Talented journalists, writers and photographers of St Petersburg that are being assisted by the museum employees create The Hermitage News. The publication is distributed free of charge in the museum complex, branches and exhibition centres of the Hermitage, at the largest hotels, restaurants and banks of St Petersburg. In the new issue of the newspaper (No.5/2009), please, read the interview with the Director of the Hermitage Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky, who tells about Muslim Art, its artistic language, its peculiarities and beauty. Big articles are dedicated to work of the World Club of St Petersburg Citizens, the history of the Pavilion Garden that once used to be a continuation of the Pavilion Hall and to the new language of art, which is used as a 'spoken' language by modern artists of Great Britain. The most extensive materials in the newspaper’s fall edition (No.5-2011)
are dedicated to the 300 year anniversary of the Menshikov Palace, the
30 year anniversary of the museum that opened there at the end of the
last century, and the “Around this Place, the Memories are Alive... Menshikov
In this edition, we will also publish a unique interview with Ninel Kalyazina, the first Head of the Menshikov Palace Department, which was conducted 30 years ago by Tatiana Kudryavtzeva. The Head of the Department of Russian Culture, Vyacheslav Fyodorov, along with Irina Ukhanova and Karina Orlova, will offer their recollections of how their department was created 60 years ago, and describe the role it plays in the life of the Hermitage. Announcements of upcoming temporary exhibits occupy a significant place
in this newspaper. The Hermitage will offer even more of them than usual
this fall, in the primary complex, its various centres, and the museums
of Saint Petersburg. Contact Information Telephone: (812) 314-93-53 Editorial Staff Project Manager Tatiana Alekseeva |
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