The hotel is located in a prime city location, near the Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace.

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Nearly five centuries after it was painted, "The Annunciation" became the focus of a battle between the Hermitage Museum in St.

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The works are on loan from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and other Russian museums, as well as the National Gallery in Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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At the end of the meeting the Director-General paid a visit to the Director of the State Hermitage Museum, Mr. Mikhail Piotrovsky on further strengthening the ongoing cooperation between the Museum and UNESCO for the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Museum in 2013, as well as for regional capacity-building of museum professionals in Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

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Shows of some of the paintings have been put on in the Hermitage and in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

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The Guggenheim and the Hermitage have a small joint museum in Las Vegas which will house an exhibition of Russian imperial clothing and jewellery as a complement to the New York show.

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The Seminar was hold by ICOM Russia jointly with the Ministry of Culture, State Hermitage, State historical museum and State Central museum of musical culture named after M.

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The Hermitage, Russia's pre-eminent state museum, was an immediate supporter.

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