HERMITAGE MUSEUM
December 1st, 2003
BY MARK ROWETHE LARGEST museum in the world and - arguably - the grandest of them all, the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg is returning to its roots. In the middle of a long and painstaking modernisation process, the Russian museum is striving, in addition to the urgent physical restoration required to bring the museum into the 21st century, to recapture the ambience of its Imperial origins, when its vast palaces were the residence of the Tsars.To this end, the Hermitage recently agreed a Euro 65 million (GBPounds 41million) contract with a Finnish ...
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