General Director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky spoke about the museum’s new acquisitions.
According to him, this year the Hermitage bought more than 700 exhibits, including works of art and archival documents. “The peculiarity of our acquisitions is that we, like Catherine II, buy collections: this is the Shushkov collection, the port-bouquet collection, the Mustafaev collection, the Khanukaev collection, the Abramov collection,” Piotrovsky said at a press conference in TASS.
The General Director of the Hermitage also revealed where the museum finds money for such acquisitions. “The Hermitage allocates from its earnings an amount approximately equal to the state’s,” he said. Piotrovsky named patrons of the arts as the second source, and endowment capital as the third. “And for several years now, by decision of the endowment council, we have been spending the endowment money on the purchase of exhibits for the Hermitage,” added the general director of the museum.
In turn, Marina Blyumin, head of the Hermitage’s new acquisitions sector, revealed that “in 2023, the museum acquired 673 works of art and 43 archival documents worth more than 100 million rubles.”
Among the new acquisitions of the Hermitage were a collection of antique shoes and a collection of Iranian earthenware.
Source: Rosbalt
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