Hermitage Revealed (2014)

Directed by

Margy Kinmonth

Genre

documentary, history

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

U

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. It shows how the museum's collection started with Catherine the Great and survived revolutionary times. The film goes behind the scenes to see restorers, archives, and treasures not on public display.

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What happens

Hermitage Revealed is a documentary film directed by Margy Kinmonth and produced by Foxtrot Films Ltd which tells the story of the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg - formerly a royal palace and now one of the largest and most visited museums in the world. Holding over 3 million objects and with more curators than any other museum, the exhibits go back to Catherine the Great. Celebrating the museum's 250th anniversary in 2014, the film shows how the collection came about, how it survived revolutionary times and what makes the Hermitage Museum unique today. This documentary feature film accesses the museum's director, curators and historical eyewitnesses through interviews and sequences in the Museum. It features significant objects from the Hermitage's collection, whose stories thread throughout the film. It reveals the workings of the Hermitage, by going behind the scenes, to observe the restorers, artists, archives and rare hidden treasures not on show to the public, in one of the world's largest museum open storage complex. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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