July 15, for the first time since the month of March opened for visitors to the State Hermitage Museum. But this does not mean that everything will be as before: for example, the Museum canceled the discount tickets and for the first time introduced the concept of the route. Well, the worst thing – now it will be impossible to walk more than two hours. Despite the fact that connoisseurs and regular visitors the habit of walking through the halls for half a day.
Tickets began to sell in advance, and the sales patterns also changed: now it can’t be purchased in person at the box office, it is necessary in advance to get a ticket strictly for a certain session. It costs five hundred rubles, free admission for seniors and students at the time of the pandemic was canceled. A separate tape for time entry: when purchasing tickets the Museum says that they can come fifteen minutes before the appointed, or forty-five minutes later – strictly in this “window”. But the work the Museum will be from 12 to 21 hours, respectively, last session will start at 19. I took a ticket shortly after the start of sales, but not only, on July 15, but none of the next few days to book a visit did not work – all sold out. The nearest free session – July 21, last, in 19 hours
the Most difficult is to determine the route. I didn’t have much time to think – the tickets for “my” session was about twenty, so I quickly pointed the route to the entrance of the Jordan staircase. This is the main option. Only the main complex (the Winter Palace, Small Hermitage and New) have made three routes.
one in the Main headquarters. From the description on the website I did not understand, what is the route for me departments – most likely, in General different, because in drawing up a “plan of movement” the main masterpieces obviously tried to “breed”. I’m hoping for a little trick – what’s inside the Museum routes intersect, and it is possible to switch from one to another. In fact, the formation of routes is certainly a difficult task for the Hermitage, because he Mikhail Piotrovsky before the pandemic was expressed that the guest needs to explore the Museum on their own, and not drawn by someone “corridors”. If I want to change the route to pass into the halls in which the ticket is kind of like “no” – am I not allowed? Say that the ancient world today it is impossible to watch? Hardly, it will have to equip the Museum corridors of the transmission to check for tickets. This, as far as I know, no. Well – not everyone knows about it, but it’s good news – in the Small Hermitage there is a separate entrance, and there will be free to see the exhibition of Assyrian art from the collection of the British Museum. Also allowed for the sessions, but the tickets free at the box office at the entrance in Shuvalovsky passage. The exhibition had a long time to end, but because of the pandemic logistics disrupted things from the British Museum was delayed in St. Petersburg.
to Go to the Museum, as in all public places during a pandemic, put the masks and gloves. Tickets fly like hot cakes – even given the fact that there is very little in comparison with the usual tourist season. At the time of writing there was only one ticket for July 26th (17:00) 37 – 28 July (19:00).
