Completion of the Restoration of the Chariot of Glory on the General Staff Arch
Great Hermitage Program
On 26 December, 2001

New project of the director Aleksandr Sokurov at the Hermitage
On 23 December, 2001

Hermitage Days in 2001
7 to 9 December, 2001

The Premiere of Benjamin Britten's Opera The Turn of the Screw on the Stage of the Hermitage Theater
On 29 November, 2001

The Opening of the Hermitage E-Shop
On 28 October 2001

Presentation of Aleksandr N. Sokurov's New Film Road Elegy
On 27 November, 2001

The Hermitage School of Restoration. The Greater Ural Regional Program
On 15-25 November, 2001

Spanish Nights
4th International Festival of Spanish Music
On 20 and 22 November, 2001

Visit of Rudolf Schuster, President of the Slovak Republic, to the State Hermitage
On 13 November, 2001

Jorge Sampaio, President of Portugal visited the State Hermitage
On October 28, 2001

The Founding Congress of the Union of Russian Museums
On October 25-28, 2001

The opening of the 2001-02 season for the Friends of the Hermitage Club
On 23 October 2001

Formal Assembly of the Worldwide Club of Petersburgers
On 19 October 2001

Completion of the sixth phase in the programme of sewerage improvements for the State Hermitage
On 19 October 2001

Tsarskoye Selo Prize awarded to Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky
On 18 October 2001

Conference: "The Art of Louise Bourgeois: an Encyclopaedia of Modern Art"
On 11 October 2001

The performance "107 fears" in the Hermitage attics by the St Petersburg group The Found Clothes Factory
On 11 October 2001

King Carl XIV Gustav of Sweden visits the State Hermitage
On 10 October 2001

Discussion of project proposals for the restoration of the Strelna palace-and-park ensemble
On 8 October 2001

Meeting of the organizing committee on the preparation and conduct of the Founding Conference of the Union of Museums in Russia
On 19 September 2001

The election of Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky as chairman of the board of directors of the ORT television channel
On 14 September 2001

The Russian State flag on the roof of the Sate Hermitage Museum is lowered as a token of the disaster happened in New York, US, on 11 September 2001
On 11 September 2001

Meeting of the Board of the American Friends of the Hermitage
On 11 September 2001

Meeting with journalists from North-Western Russia
On 11 September 2001

Signing of a collaboration agreement with the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
On 7 September 2001

Placing of Wreaths and Setting of a Commemorative Gravestone in the Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery
On 6 September 2001

The visit of King Abdullah II ibn Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the State Hermitage
On 29 August 2001

The visit of Kim Jong Il, chairman of the National Defence Committee of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
On 6 August 2001

The discovery of an outstanding "royal" burial of the Scythian period in Tuva
On 31 July 2001

TUBA MIRUM International Cultural Project
Between 12 and 28 June 2001

Press Conference
Marking the 1700th anniversary of Christianity in Armenia
On 27 June 2001

International Scholarly Conference
The East - Russia - The West: World Religions and Art
Between 5 and 8 June 2001

The Board of Directors and the staff of the State Hermitage Museum congratulate their colleagues with the Day of Museums!

Signing of the Statement on the Intentions between the State Hermitage Museum, the Ministry of Culture of the Tatarstan Republic and the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Tatarstan Republic
On 16 May 2001

An Extraordinary Event in the State Hermitage Museum
On 22 March 2001

The Hermitage Readings in memory of Boris Piotrovsky (1908 -1990)
On 14 - 15 February 2001

The Agreement "On the Development of the Long-Term Cooperation Programmes" between the State Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg, the Russian Federation), the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna, Austria), the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation (New York, N.Y., the USA)
On January 15, 2001