Hermitage Museum Cats Website
Over the past decade the cats have become as popular as the museums collection the Hermitage staff said.
Hermitage museum cats website. A warning sign about cats. Army of cats at the Hermitage Museum. In 1745 Peter the Greats daughter Empress Elisabeth issued a decree ordering that the finest cats of Kazan a city on the Volga river be found the biggest the ones best-suited to catching mice so that they can be sent to Her Majestys court.
Petersburg famous museum The Hermitage has a secret collection a tradition of allowing a herd of cats to roam over much of the grounds and live in the basement. Cats first found a home at the Hermitage long before it became a museum open to the public in the 1850s. Over the past decade the cats have become as popular as the museums collection the Hermitage staff said.
Also youll be glad to know that more than 35 of orders are done before The Hermitage Cats. The Empress personally signed the Decree on the expulsion to the court cats prescribing to find the best and greatest cats in the city of Kazan suitable for the capture of mice send them to St. In 2007 the museum administration began adopting stray cats and in 2011 they started the Catfest an annual celebration of the Hermitages cat population.
A frenchman has left cash to 50 cats who stay in russias hermitage museum. Photo is taken from the website. The cats lived in relatively poor conditions until the mid-1990s when the museum administration began a program to care for the furry residents of Hermitage.
The Hermitage hosts an annual party for the cats and has a website where locals. A French philanthropist bequeathed a small sum of money to the cats who live in the basement of the State Hermitage Museum in St. The largest building of the State Hermitage Museum which was built to the design of architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli in 1754-1762 was ordered by Empress Eliz.
A Hermitage cat. Well this was refreshing to watch this morning. There is a part of me the registrarcollections managerdead conservator that was moaning Nooooo in my head.