Государственный Эрмитаж（Hermitage Museum）
Understanding of museums, the Hermitage museum is one of the world’s four largest museums, together with the Louvre in Paris, the British Museum in London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, known as the world’s four largest museums. I searched the Internet and e-books for the history of the museum and some of its famous exhibits. In the following, I will introduce the museum and put forward my favorite features and my understanding of it.
The Hermitage museum was designed by renowned architect Rastrelli and was originally the private museum of Empress Catherine The Great. It contains over 2.7 million pieces, including collections of prehistoric culture and Egyptian art, as well as numerous Italian, Spanish, German, English, Russian, Belgian, Dutch and French paintings and carvings. The museum exhibits seven parts, namely, primitive culture history, ancient Greek and Roman culture and art, Oriental culture and art, Russian culture, Western European art history, coin and craft. Exhibits are displayed in more than 350 exhibition halls in regional and chronological order. With a total length of 30 kilometers, the exhibition line is known as the world’s longest art gallery. It gets 3.5 million visitors a year. Fifty or sixty cats live in the basement of the museum, which used to hold exhibitions and concerts for them. Cat guardian Hermitage’s art treasures are more than 200 years old and have contributed greatly to museum staff and st. Petersburg citizens alike.
One of my favorite exhibits in the museum is called the Peacock’s Bell. It is now located in the Hermitage of the Hermitage Museum in Russia. It was described by some as a magical garden, the perfect combination of exquisite arts and crafts and the most advanced clock technology of the time.
The peacock bell, like a magical garden, has become the treasure of the hermitage museum in Russia. The three meters tall leafy oak tree stood a beautiful peacock, on the left is a confined in a cage owl, the right is a stately decorated big rooster, graceful posture, all kinds of animals come in all shapes and lifelike, under the tree is growing that 12 round mushrooms, one of the biggest mushroom, at the top of the tree also fall with a dragonfly wings to fly. It is not only a work of art, but also a practical object. The 300-year-old peacock clock is still in use and working well thanks to its ultra-high craftsmanship. The shape of the peacock, rooster and owl is part of the automatic timing device.