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# As for the view from the museum community, concessions are laid down in an order of the Russian Ministry of Culture, but there is also a list of concessions that a museum sets for itself, and the Hermitage has evidently availed itself of that right
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/chto-kasaetsia-vzgliada-so-storony-muzeinogo-soobshchestva-to-lgoty-propisany-v-prikaze-minkulta-rf-no-takzhe-est-perechen-lgot-kotorye-muzei-sam-ustanavlivaet-vidimo-ermitazh-vospolzov/
- Published: 2020-09-24T05:55:34.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:42:14.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Museums, Society, Saint Petersburg

As for the view from the museum community, concessions are laid down in an order of the Russian Ministry of Culture, but there is also a list of concessions that a museum sets for itself, and the Hermitage has evidently availed itself of that right. In most museums, staff from other museums naturally come in free of charge, but Saint Petersburg, it seems, has felt the pinch more than others as the crisis develops, since privileges for museum people are sacred to museums: ICOM (International Council of Museums) cards may go unrecognised, but to ignore the “museum badge” only a museum apostate would dare. As an insider of the museum community put it: “The last thing a museum can take away is the right of colleagues to walk in without a ticket. Probably a new internal order has been issued; Mikhail Borisovich recently spoke of withdrawing certain concessions, and it will presumably affect only the tiny percentage of museum people who have the time and the desire to run around museums.”