Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko, Chairwoman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation sent her best wishes to the staff of the museum on Hermitage Day.
Here is the full text of her message:
Dear Friends,
I sincerely wish you all the best for Hermitage Day.
The State Hermitage is one of the largest art museums, one whose destiny is inseparable from the history of Russia. It can justly be called an exceptional phenomenon in the nation’s culture and a great treasure-house in which masterpieces of the art of all periods and many peoples are on display.
Each year, the celebrated museum complex is visited by several million people from all corners of the world. The museum successfully combines traditions and modernity, opens new displays in its home city of Saint Petersburg, other cities in Russia and abroad. Your highly qualified team is successfully introducing progressive ways of providing knowledge and education, digital technologies, implementing bold experimental projects, conducting intensive research activities, and expanding international ties.
Dear Friends. Thank you for your labours to preserve cultural heritage, your enormous contribution to the spiritual development of our beloved Saint Petersburg and the whole of Russia.
I wish you health and prosperity.
Congratulations!
V.I. Matviyenko
