Rooms and Halls
Restoration of the
rooms of French art in the Winter Palace
In May 2005, one of the largest scale projects begun in 2004 was completed:
the multifaceted restoration of rooms of French art of the 16th-18th
and 19th-20th centuries located in the Winter Palace. The State Hermitage
implemented this project with financial support from the French financial
institutions Credit Agricole S.A. and Caisse des dépôts
et consignations.
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Restoration of the
Gallery of Ancient Painting
On 7 December 2005, the Gallery of Ancient Painting was reopened to
the public following restoration work. This has one of the most beautiful
interiors in the New Hermitage.
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Restoration of the
Corner Room
In 2005 a full range of repair and restoration work was carried out
in the Corner Room (248), which was designed by Leo von Klenze in the
mid-1840s.
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Room of Archaic
Art. Opening of a new permanent exhibition
In May 2005, there was the opening of a new permanent exhibition in
the Room of Archaic Art. Ever since 1997, the State Hermitage has been
carrying out a programme of reconstructing a permanent exhibition that
is to meet world standards of the today's museum while preserving the
unique artistic and historical features of the museum complex created
in the mid-19th century in the New Hermitage building.
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The Hall of Jupiter.
Opening of a new permanent exhibition
In 2005 the Hall of Jupiter reopened following restoration work. This
hall is one of the largest in the New Hermitage. It offers a modernized
exhibition on "The Art of Ancient Rome from the 1st to the 4th
Century".
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A new method of
processing exhibit items. Display cases with mechanically stabilized
climate
The Laboratory for Biological Monitoring (Liudmila Slavoshevskaya, director)
has introduced a non-destructive method of processing exhibit items
infested with insects in a deep-freezer chamber. Various exhibitions
in museums make use of various models of installations for stabilizing
microclimate. In Russia mechanical stabilization in display cases is
being applied for the first time.
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