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# In view of the spread of coronavirus, the Hermitage announces the following
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/v-sviazi-s-rasprostraneniem-koronavirusa-ermitazh-soobshchaet-sleduiushchee/
- Published: 2020-03-16T21:28:22.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:42:58.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Museums, Observations, Society, Saint Petersburg

\- A crisis management plan has been drawn up, which includes possible options for the museum's operation should the situation deteriorate.

\- The Hermitage does not plan to hold any mass cultural events with more than 1,000 participants in the near future.

\- Attendance at the museum complex is regulated by the Museum Security Service and by technical means that prevent large crowds of visitors from gathering.

\- The Hermitage is striving to ensure that the museum's exhibition plans do not change.

\- At present we plan for all our exhibitions to open according to the previously approved schedule, although the ceremonial openings of these exhibitions, with invited guests, will not be held.

\- The museum does not plan any trips by its staff outside Russia in the near future.

\- Staff who have arrived or are arriving from abroad are undergoing self-isolation and working remotely.

\- All staff whose work involves contact with visitors are provided with protective masks.

\- The already meticulous cleaning of the museum has been intensified.

\- Despite the difficult conditions, the museum is not closing.

**AND NOW, ATTENTION:**

\- Children, pupils and students, as well as Russian pensioners, remain among the main social groups of the museum's audience.

*Evidently, the contradiction between all the other points and the last one is not obvious to everyone.*

*Well, what is there to say, friends? In the war years the Hermitage showed incredible fortitude and dignity. How best to characterise its conduct during an epidemic, I hardly know.*

*Information from the pinned post in the official group* [https://vk.com/wall-67940544\_47422](https://vk.com/wall-67940544%5F47422?ref=theparnassian.com)