Saturday, March 7, 2009

Hermitage museum:

This Hermitage Museum is one of the famous and leading museum around the world. This museum is the tourist spot for the peoples around the world. This hermitage Museum consists of paintings, sculptures, objects art: discover the masterpieces of Russia's most prestigious museum. The Hermitage Museum gathers one of the world's most extensive collections of works along with the Louvre, Paris and the Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York.
The Hermitage Museum Foundation, founded in 1994, today counts over 4,000 friends across the United States.
The Hermitage Museum Foundation works with internationally renowned Hermitage Director Dr. Mikhail Piotrovsky to help secure the 21st Century future for the artworks and historic buildings of the Hermitage.Over 200 masterpieces analysed In the prestigious painting gallery, admire major paintings from Leonardo da Vinci to Picasso. In the Antique Art galleries, gaze at the treasures of Scythian, Greek and Oriental art.The Hermitage Museum Foundation also sponsors public education programs, private curator tours, exhibitions of American Art in the Hermitage, and member trips to the Hermitage. In September 2004 the Foundation in collaboration with Sotheby’s organized Hermitage Week in New York consisting of an exhibition of objects from the Hermitage Treasury never seen outside of Russia, concerts, lectures, and a scholarly symposium.From here you proceed into the New Hermitage, a 19th century building first opened for public in 1852. The tour of the Hermitage won’t be complete without a visit to the Malachite Room of the Winter Palace. Over two tons of this unique ornamental stone were used in this sumptuous room decorated with malachite columns and vases, gilded doors and ceiling and rich parquet flooring. This Museum is the biggest museum in the world and it consists of many older paintings and many sculptures and also the used items of paintings and for sculptures are also found in this museum.

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