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The former Mikhailovsky Palace, now the Russian Museum, houses one of the country's finest collections of Russian art.
BBC: Visiting the bookends of Russia's history
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The Russian Arctic Convoy Museum Group has organised the reunion as part of its Arctic Convoys Week, which will run from 6-11 May.
BBC: Reunion at Loch Ewe for Arctic Convoys veterans
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The works are on loan from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and other Russian museums, as well as the National Gallery in Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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The Guggenheim and the Hermitage have a small joint museum in Las Vegas which will house an exhibition of Russian imperial clothing and jewellery as a complement to the New York show.
ECONOMIST: Art from Russia
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Back in 1719, when Russian Czar Peter the Great opened what is considered to be the first public museum, he displayed all sorts of natural and human rarities: exotic butterflies, skeletons and living specimens such as Foma the Lobster Boy.
NPR: Hidden Museum Treasures
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In the cottage museum are photographs of a recent visit from Beijing of descendants of the Russian mercenaries.
ECONOMIST: The Amur River
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More than 80 museum specialists from CIS countries and representatives of ICOM, UNESCO, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and Defense ministry attended the seminar.
UNESCO: The Second International Seminar on Museum Security and Methods of the 1970 UNESCO Convention Implementation | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization