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• Hermitage’s Head Clocksmith on his Work, Laboratory and the Importance of Restoring Technological Marvels

  Antique timepieces and clockworks are definitely great monuments to human mind and fantasy, especially those like the ones you can see at the State Hermitage Museum. Grand and miniature, shaped into the dome of heaven or a small bird, with six clock hands or a mechanical orchestra inside — each of them is unique and reflects the history of both the technological progress and the human strive for beauty. Mikhail Guriev, Hermitage's leading clocksmith and head of the Laboratory for Scientific Restoration of Timepieces and Musical Mechanisms shared on different clock's wondrous features, on their clock collection's history and on who might be interested in tours on clockworks.

  07.12.2016

• Lectures in the Hermitage: How to Combine Art and Science

  The authors of the international educational project Art&Science: Science.Art.Museum invite everybody to discover a symbiosis of modern technologies and art objects. During these lectures the speakers will answer the following questions: how to detect forgery? Why do artists need to collaborate with researchers? Can we call art objects masterpieces, if they were created with using biomedical and IT technologies?

  21.11.2016