Oman's National Museum to host Hermitage Museum Day

Muscat: His Highness Sayyid Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, Minister of Heritage and Culture, Chairman of Trustee Board of the National Museum will inaugurate tomorrow at the National Museum the Hermitage Museum Day which includes a series of cultural events.
The Hermitage museum Day is arranged as part of the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the Sultanate’s National Museum and the Hermitage Museum in the Russian Federation.
The programme includes a welcoming speech by Jamal bin Hasan Al Mousawi, Director General of the National Museum and Prof. Mikhail Piotrowski, Director of Hermitage Museum, in addition to signing an agreement for training and professional qualification, in addition to screening a documentary about the Hermitage Museum.
The programme also includes a lecture in Arabic entitled “Secrets of Oriental Collections in the Hermitage Museum” by Prof. Mikhail Piotrowski, Director of Hermitage, and two workshops in the field of conservation and preservation, in addition to an exhibition of Russian national treasures related to the East. The exhibition continues until 31 May 2019.
Founded in 1764, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, is one of the largest museums in the world and contains more than three million masterpieces.
It is one of the oldest museums in the world. It hosted in July 2018 an Oman day initiative in St. Petersburg for three months. It coincided with the World Football Cup in Russia.
The initiative was arranged in cooperation with National Records and Archives Authority where 6 documents were displayed about the Omani-Russian relations, in addition to three distinguished antiques.