The representation of the State Hermitage will open in China

It agrees to about the intentions, signed on June 30 the State Hermitage and the Red 19 TV Limited company, the parties plan to create in the near future the Hermitage China center. To sign the memorandum of center opening in Shanghai where the partner company is based, the Hermitage intends next month during official visit to Russian Federation chapters China Xi Jinping who will begin on July 4.

"Future center is focused by

on . It is a question of creation of movies, a television channel about the Hermitage, a site and the whole museum of virtual reality devoted to the Hermitage" — the director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky told at an official ceremony of signing . From the Chinese party the document Yingli Hon, the director of the company of Red 19 TV Limited (Hong Kong signed, China).

As were told by Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky to the correspondent of TANR, future center will be organized by the same principle, as other foreign branches: the host provides infrastructure, the Hermitage — a content, filling. The basic difference consists that to start activity of the center it is necessary to receive a consent of the Chinese authorities.

the Partner of the Hermitage — one of the largest television companies of the country who is engaged in import of movies to China. The Hermitage will open each half a year in the Chinese center of an exhibition about which the TV company is going to do movies. Development of educational programs, including for children, creation of the online channel of the Hermitage for video loading about the museum is provided. In the near future the Hermitage China center is planned to place in the certain building, in it among other things there will be the round-the-clock movie theater where show movies about the Hermitage. All financial expenses connected with implementation of the project and programs of the center, the Chinese party assumes.

the Such cultural centers are already open for

by the St. Petersburg museum in other countries. On the constant basis acts "Hermitage Amsterdam"; "Hermitage Italy" to Venice is focused mainly on scientific activity; it is planned to open branch in Barcelona. Besides, before representation Charity fund "Ermitazh–Guggenkhaym" and "Hermitage rooms" within seven years worked in Las Vegas and in the Somerset House in London.