Virtual Visits of Museums The Hermitage Museum is also very generous in offering us to see all its collections online. You can visit virtually the exposition halls and other premises of all the buildings that form part of the largest museum in Russia. These are the Winter Palace, that is the former residence of the Russian emperors, Hermitage Theatre, New Hermitage, Old Hermitage, Small Hermitage, General Staff Building, Winter Palace of Peter I, Menshikov Palace, Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory and even their Restoration and Storage Centre! Besides, you can take a virtual walk through the Hermitage's Diamond Room and Gold Room and see the treasures from their collection online.
Click here to go on with your virtual visit of the Hermitage.
You can see the Russian art masterpieces from the collection of
the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg online on their website:
https://rusmuseumvrm.ru/collections/index.php?lang=en And what about Moscow? The State Tretyakov Gallery has many online events, but all in Russian at the moment. In the meantime you can make an online visit to
the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, that has a wonderful collection of French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists (another part of the legendary Shchukins and Morozovs Collection divided between Hermitage and this museum), as well as other precious items. Scroll down the main page of their website until you see the headline "Collections" and see the main masterpieces, such as
The Girl on a Ball from the Pink Period of Picasso:
https://pushkinmuseum.art/?lang=en# The museum also offers you to take a virtual visit further down the same page (Virtual Pushkin Museum), if you click on the image with sculptures of knights you will be redirected to another page in Russian, which is, nevertheless, does not require command of the language, you can click on the two squares in its front row it to embark on an online tour of the main buildings of the museum:
https://www.virtual.arts-museum.ru
The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art has launched online lectures and meetings, some of them are in English and you can easily join them in Zoom! See the link below for more information:
https://garagemca.org/enText by Alexandra Carusel Tours