Rooms and Halls

The Winter Palace. Completion of Reconstruction of the Picket Room
On 9 December 2004, during the Hermitage Days, the Picket (New) Room was opened to the public following reconstruction. The room opens onto the Main Suite of state rooms of the Winter Palace. This is where the exhibition devoted to the history of the Russian Army was located.
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Restoration of the Twenty-Columned Hall in the New Hermitage
On 6 April 2004 one of the best-known halls of the New Hermitage - the Twenty-Columned Hall (Hall of Greek and Etruscan Vases) - reopened following reconstruction. The hall was created according to designs of the architect Leo von Klenze (1784-1864) in the early 1850s in the form of an ancient temple with columns made of grey granite. The walls of the hall and the frieze and caissoned ceiling are covered with painting done in the spirit of ancient ceramics. The mosaic floor is decorated with acanthus and meander ornamentation.
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Restoration of the Van Dyck Room in the New Hermitage
In 2004 the restoration of the Van Dyck Room was completed. The room, originally an Antechamber, is in the New Hermitage, which was built in 1852 according to the designs of Leo von Klenze (1784-1864). As a result of the complex of restoration work in the room, the interior was recreated as it existed in the final quarter of the 19th century when the walls were painted crimson and the ceiling painting depicted the coat of arms of the Russian Empire.
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