Hermitage Days – 2010
The Hermitage in Photographs

7 December 2010, traditionally during the Hermitage Days, an exhibition of photographs telling about the events that took place in the museum for the last year was set up in the Foyer of the Hermitage Theater. It is no coincidence that this traditional exhibition is held in December days – it is the time for summarizing the results of the year.

The first phase of the Eastern Wing of the General Staff is being prepared for delivery; facades are under repair; the museum’s principal staircase, the Jordan Staircase, has been restored. The new Hermitage-Vyborg Center has been launched. For the past year permanent expositions in the halls of Bospor, Dagestan, Central Asia were opened for visitors.

Artists-photographers of the Editing and Publishing Department took photographs of the Hermitage daily life and holidays: scientific conferences and visits of distinguished guests, restoration projects, educational programs for children, temporary exhibition and archaeological finds, concerts and performances that took place in the country’s largest museum. The best photographs were selected out of the most significant events.

A book The Hermitage in Photographs, which is an extended catalog of the photo exhibition, has been prepared for the exposition. In the catalog photographs are grouped by topics into which events of various nature and scale, being an integral part of life of the State Hermitage, were conventionally divided.

The exhibition has been prepared by the staff of the Editing and Publishing Department of the State Hermitage headed by Elena Zvyagintseva.

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