Due to the fact that the Hermitage collection is quite large, the focus was created, where museum exhibits are stored and restored. Therefore, if you were in the Hermitage, it does not mean that you have seen the entire collection of the museum, and you must, you need to visit the Staraya Village State Focus. Restoration-Eleteral Center is a modern marble building originally decorated with petroglyphs.
It is possible to get there only as part of the excursion group, which formed by appointment by phone. 340-10-26. Excursions pass from Wednesdays on Sunday from 11.00 to 13.00 and from 13.30 to 15.30 The price of excursions in the RCC "Old Village" in the area of 500 rubles per person, but every 1st thursday of the month there is a discount and then the price of a ticket is about 200 rubles.
All the halls opens the guide with a special card, then the doors are automatically blocked. Passing a lot of armored doors (this is really a repository, and not the museum in the usual sense of the word) find yourself in the hall of Russian painting.
Many exhibits and all paintings are behind the glass, so the photo turned out to be glad. Photographing the striculous is prohibited everywhere, except for the hall with carants, but ...
In the course of the excursion, we visited several rooms:
• with icons (in this hall there is a fusion portrait of Ksenia blissful),
• hall with frescoes,
• Russian painting hall,
• with furniture, Russian and European,
• sculpture hall (almost all copies),
• Hall with tapestries
• and with costumes
• hall with the results of archaeological excavations,
• Armory,
• Small lounge with a tent, donated Catherine II Turkish Sultan,
• Hall-shed Tsarist Karet (why did you not understand the shed, but the guide called it this way).
The guide was interested in the exhibition exhibits and the work of the repository. It turns out that there are no people in the halls, they allow special gas that contributes to the preservation of exclusive rare objects, and the air passes double cleaning. The excursion to the focus bar is strikingly different from ordinary excursions in the museum because the exhibits are not signed, the guides are talking only about the most interesting and questions about other exhibits can not always answer. Although they read excursion lectures Professional Ermitage employees. Exhibits are constantly changing, going temporarily to open storage in the Hermitage, so they are not always all the halls and excursion themes are always diverse. You can not once visit the excursion, and the impressions will be different - the exhibits there will definitely be enough for the second Hermitage.