The first Hermitage Days have ended in Tyumen

From 12 to 17 November 2024, the first Hermitage Days in Tyumen were held at the Ivan Yakovlevich Slovtsov Museum Complex. State Hermitage staff members staged a diverse series of events for visitors and professionals in the museum sphere.

The first event of the Hermitage Days was the opening of the exhibition “To the Sacred Memory of the Year Twelve”, which will run at the Museum Complex until 12 February 2025.

The educational programme included a public lecture by the exhibition’s curator, Irina Zakharova. The Chief Curator of the State Hermitage’s Department of the History of Russian Culture spoke about the history of the Hermitage and the main monuments in Saint Petersburg to the events of the Napoleonic Wars.

The museum cinema held screenings of documentary films in the Masterpieces of the Hermitage series, as well as The Empire Style of Two Empires and The Siberian Collection of Peter I. Visitors were able to experience the 360˚ format film The Hermitage. Immersion in History with the actor Konstantin Khabensky in the main role of guide. This last project was introduced to audiences by Dmitry Budanov, head of the Hermitage’s Information Technologies Sector.

Particular attention was allotted to the children’s educational programme “With a Fairy to the Hermitage” prepared by the Children’s Centre of the I.Ya. Slovtsov Museum Complex. Museum staff devised master classes for the children and a guide sheet to help young visitors understand the exhibition “To the Sacred Memory of the Year Twelve”.

For museum specialists there was a lecture on new formats and approaches to working with a youth audience and a master class. Alexandra Sheveleva, a methodologist with the Youth Centre, a sector within the Hermitage’s Department for Scientific and Educational Work, shared experience of conducting art mediations around the museum’s displays.

Locals and visitors to Tyumen were also able to acquaint themselves with the most interesting books produced by the Hermitage’s Editorial and Publishing Department in recent years. The new catalogues of temporary exhibitions were presented by Yekaterina Nasyrova, head of the museum’s Sector for the Sale of Printed Matter and Souvenirs.