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The branch is located alongside the Amstel River and houses a collection from the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg worth millions. For Amsterdam, the new museum is an extra attraction. For Russia, it is a new way of bringing Russian culture to the rest of the world.Nursing home
The exhibition is divided between two great halls and 42 small gallery spaces inside the new Hermitage branch. The building was a nursing home for Amsterdam elderly until 2007.
It has now been transformed into the Dutch annex of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. The exhibition is the result of years of collaboration between Dutch museum director Ernst Veen and Russian museum director Michail Piotrovski. Both parties profit from the venture says Mr Piotrovski:
“As a result of all this work we - the Hermitage – have received an additional space to show our collections and to give our interpretation of Russian and world history.
The Hermitage is compensated partly for its expenses – one euro from every visitor, and our experience is that visitors are inclined to come as well to Saint Petersburg to see the Hermitage over there.
Our Dutch friends are receiving a unique possibility to see on a great scale our collections, and I hope we will give another reason for a tourist to stay one day longer in Amsterdam.”
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