De Hermitage Amsterdam. In the early 1990s Professor Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of
The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg was considering the possibility of having satellites of the museum in the West. The
Nieuwe Kerk and the Hermitage had already established a strong relationship through the organisation of major exhibitions, and Ernst Veen, director of the Nieuwe Kerk, suggested that Amsterdam would be the
ideal location for a branch of the Russian museum, given the
historical links between the two cities over the past 300 years.
posted by the fire you left me
on Mar 16, 2004 -
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A dissappearing history. The
National Museum of Iraq recorded a history of civilizations that began to flourish in the fertile plains of Mesopotamia more than 7,000 years ago. But once American troops entered Baghdad in sufficient force to topple Saddam Hussein's government this week, it took only 48 hours for the museum to be destroyed, with at least 170,000 artifacts carried away by looters.
posted by the fire you left me
on Apr 12, 2003 -
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