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Students' Day at the State Hermitage
Museum Hermitage Today. Under this title, the State Hermitage Museum opened a new season designed for Saint Petersburg youth. Students' Day, which took place on 7 October 2007 at the Hermitage Theatre, saw the gathering of nearly 300 lively students full of creative power and initiative, coming from a variety of higher education institutions throughout the Northern capital-youth who are fascinated with art and interested in the goings-on of the most famous world-arts treasury. Responding to surveys held among students, this year members of the Youth Centre formed a number of Student Club sections with diverse, individually themed programs. Over 20 sections will be held in the new season. It is no coincidence that the celebration was named Hermitage Today, for throughout the Hermitage Museum's history, the collections have continued to include pieces by contemporary artists. Catherine II acquired paintings by her contemporaries, and under Emperor Nicholas I, the Hermitage's collections also saw the addition of significant pieces by contemporary artists. On Students' Day, the city's youth were introduced to the Hermitage 20/21 Project, the main purpose of which is to make the Hermitage Museum not only a museum of classical culture but also a centre for contemporary art. After the official ceremony, the students were surprised by a live concert, which included pieces by Mozart, Rossini, and The Dance of the Hours from Ponchielli's opera La Gioconda, played by the State Hermitage Orchestra's top-tier musicians in the Pavilion Hall of the Small Hermitage. Students' Day closed with a demonstration of a unique exhibit from the Hermitage's collection: the Peacock Clock created by English clockmaker James Coxe and acquired by Empress Catherine II. |
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