The STaTe hermiTage muSeum annual reporT

eDucatIonal eVents
educaTional children programme
connecTed wiTh The exhiBiTion “The wind
in The pines…” 5,000 YeaRs of KoRean aRT
In the summer of 2010 the methodological unit of the School
Centre offered visitors a new educational programme for
junior school children and their parents. It was connected
with the exhibition that opened in the Hermitage on 1 June,
2010: “The Wind in the Pines…” 5,000 Years of Korean Art.
The young visitors were shown gold ornaments found
in the tombs of the rulers of the ancient Silla State, various
monuments of Buddhist culture, ceramics and porcelain,
objects made of bronze and stone, screens with painted
decorations, silk scrolls with Buddhist subjects, genre and
“dayS of claSSical anTiQuiTy 2010”
programme for School children
On 21–25 April 2010, the annual festival “Days of Classical
Antiquity” was held in the rooms of the Department
of Classical Antiquity. It was the fourth time that this festival,
which had become very popular with children of
junior and middle school age, was held in the Hermitage
Museum. The main objective of the festival is to attract the
attention of school children and other young people to
monuments of Classical Antiquity and to demonstrate that
the study of ancient traditions, which is an integral part
of today’s life, can be an exciting event of the education
process.
As before, the rooms of the Department of Classical Antiquity
were the main site for the festival. Within the framework
of the festival a drawing contest for children was arranged:
portrait paintings and other works of that country’s art.
The children learned about the archaeological excavations
of the royal mounds going on in Korea and the traditional
writing system. They also listened to some Korean legends
and fairy tales.
Exhibition tours were conducted by staff members of the
National Museum of Korea and by the Head of the School
Centre I. Dubanova. Then the children assembled with their
own hands models of the ancient Korean rulers’ crown and
of a pagoda, the celebrated Temple of Hopes Fulfilled, and
took them all home as keepsakes to remember their visit
to the Hermitage. The kits for those workshops were provided
by the Korean side. The programme was a great success
and was enjoyed both by the children and the adults.
“The World of Classical Antiquity in Colour”. The young
students of art schools were given an assignment: to draw
a picture within their two-hour stay in the Hermitage rooms
inspired by the works of Classical art there or by famous
ancient myths and traditions. a display was arranged in
the sivkov Passage, where the most interesting drawings
by school children and photographs by students from the
Hermitage youth Centre were hung to create an interesting
series of “antiquity and the Present”. the festival also
included a quest game and a lecture on the restoration
of ancient statues.
For children with special needs the sculptor A. Fumelli
gave a class of modelling, in which the children were given
a chance to work with plastic materials and create their
own works based on ancient originals.
The festival was supported by the LLC “Likeon – Museum
Concepts and Projects Ltd”.
Special developmenT programmeS
cooperaTion agreemenT for 2010 Signed
BeTween The STaTe hermiTage and philipS
in ruSSia
On 11 February 2010, the State Hermitage and Philips in
Russia signed a Cooperation Agreement, which will involve
the installation of a new lighting system for the Alexander
Column, the Jordan Gallery, and the St. George Hall in
the Winter Palace. The Agreement was signed by Mikhail
Piotrovsky, Director of the Hermitage, and Joost Leeflang,
CEO of Philips in Russia.
In the Jordan Gallery, Philips will modernize the lighting
system by replacing the existing lighting units with LED
projection lamps. The St. George Hall (Great Throne
Room) will be lit by state-of-the-art Novallure LED lamps
made by Phillips.
High-power LED projector lamps will be used to illuminate
the Alexander Column.
preSenTaTion of The holland alliance
proJecT
On 15 April 2010, the museum saw the presentation of the
joint projects by the State Hermitage and KLM Royal Dutch
Airlines. The evening was timed to coincide with the launch
of daily flights between St. Petersburg and Amsterdam.
To mark the event, KLM took a key part in a special project,
the transportation of Dance, the masterpiece by the great
early twentieth-century artist Henri Matisse, to the Hermitage
• Amsterdam Exhibition Centre for the exhibition
From Matisse to Malevich. Pioneers of Modern Art from
the Hermitage.
On 29 March, KLM sent to Russia the largest aircraft of
the Dutch fleet, the Boeing-747 Combi. The Matisse masterpiece
was on loan to the Amsterdam exhibition to mark
the centenary of the work, which was painted in 1910. It returned
to Russia on 9 May.
memorandum of culTural cooperaTion Signed BeTween The STaTe hermiTage,
The vleric leuven genT managemenT School campuS, ST. peTerSgurg,
and The inTernaTional early muSic feSTival
On 19 October 2010, a Memorandum on Agreement to
Cooperate was signed by the State Hermitage, the Vleric
Leuven Gent Management School, St. Petersburg, and the
International Early Music Festival.
In view of the mutual desire of the parties to promote
the cultural heritage of St. Petersburg and Flanders in
order to improve the bilateral economic and cultural relations,
and in view of the wish to stage several events in
St. Petersburg and Flanders and thus to prepare a platform
for further cooperation between St. Petersburg and
Flanders in the cultural, political, and economic spheres,
the State Hermitage is willing to cooperate with its Flem-
ish colleagues in preparing joint exhibitions of works
of art from the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg
(“The Collection”) at the State Hermitage and Flemish
museums.
The Memorandum on Agreement was signed by representatives
of the Parties in the State Hermitage in the presence
of Mr. Kris Peeters, Minister-President of the Government
of Flanders. Mr. Mikhail Piotrovsky signed on behalf of the
State Hermitage Museum, Mr. Louis Verbeke signed on
behalf of the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School,
and Mr. Andrei Reshetin signed on behalf of the International
Early Music Festival.
The ceremony of signing the Memorandum
of Cultural Cooperation between the State Hermitage,
the Vleric Leuven Gent Management School
(St. Petersburg Campus), and the International Early
Music Festival. Mikhail Piotrovsky, Louis Verbeke
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