Museums of the 21st Century
Restoration, Reconstruction, Renovation

The State Hermitage Museum
in cooperation with the PRO-ARTE Institute and the AMO Studio

International conference

Meetings will be held on 20-22 October 2008 at the Hermitage Theatre and the Conference Hall
Staff Entrance: 34 Dvortsovaya Embankment

The conference is organized with the support from
the US Consulate General in St Petersburg,
the Consulate General of Germany in St Petersburg,
the Institute of the Netherlands in St Petersburg,
the Lykeion - useum Concepts and Projects Ltd and
the Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder Travel Fund for Central and Eastern Europe.

Programme

Monday, 20 October
The Hermitage Theatre

9.00 - 9.45 Registration of the participants
10.00 Opening of the conference
Welcome by Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director, State Hermitage Museum (St Petersburg)
Welcome by Elena Kolovskaya, Executive Director, PRO-ARTE Institute (St Petersburg)
Welcome by Rem Koolhaas, Head, ÀÌÎ/OMA Studio (Rotterdam)

Ìorning session (10.30-13.00)
Museum and City: The Museum Island - The General Staff Building

10.30 - 10.40 Moderators: Prof. Mikhail Piotrovsky (Director, State Hermitage Museum), Prof. Dr. Hermann Parzinger (President, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation)
10.40 - 11.00 Prof. Dr. Hermann Parzinger (President, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation)
The Humboldt Forum - The Intellectual Architecture of a New Centre for the Non-European Cultures in the Berlin Palace
11.00 - 11.20 Prof. Dr. Andreas Sholl (Director, Berlin State Museums)
Restructuring the Archaeological Collections of the Berlin State Museums on Museum Island
11.20 - 11.40 Dr. Gisela Holan (Head of the Department of the Reconstruction, Building and Techniques)
Master Plan of Museum Island and the New Concept
11.40 - 12.10 Break
12.10 - 12.30 Prof. Dr. Werner Lorenz (architect, Technical University of Brandenburg)
Modern Museums in the World Heritage. Structural Challenges, Structural Solutions
12.30 - 12.50 Valery Lukin (Chief Architect, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)
The General Staff Building - the Reconstruction Project
12.50 - 13.30 Discussion
Bernhard Heres (engineer, Technical University of Brandenburg)
Sergey Fedorov (engineer, Fakultat fur Architektur, Institut fur Tragkonstruktionen, Universitat Karlsruhe)
13.30 - 14.30 Break

Afternoon session (14.30-18.00)
The Conference Hall
Transformations inside the Museum: Restoration and Restructuring

14.30 - 14.40 Moderators: Prof. Dr. Wilfried Seipel (General Director, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna), Anna Trofimova (Head of the Department of Classical Antiquities, Executive Secretary of the Commission for Permanent Displays, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)
14.40 - 15.00 Dr. Carlos Picon (Head of the Department of Greek and Roman Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Renovation of the Ancient Greek and Roman Art Galleries
15.00 - 15.20 Dr. Karol Wight (Senior Curator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
Renovation of the Getty Villa
15.20 - 15.40 Prof. Dr. Wilfried Seipel (General Director, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Renovation of the Galleries of Classical Antiquity
15.40 - 16.00 Prof. Dr. Raimund Wunsche (Director, State Collections of Antiques and Glyptothek, Munich)
Glyptothek, Antikensammlungen and Pompejanum. Three Different Solutions for Archaeological Museums
16.00 - 16.30 Break
16.30 - 16.50 Anna Trofimova (Head of the Department of Classical Antiquities, Executive Secretary of the Commission for Permanent Displays, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)
Programme of the Renovation of the Galleries of Greek and Roman Antiquity
16.50 - 17.10 Prof. Dimitrios Pandermalis (President, Organization for the Construction of the New Acropolis Museum, Athens)
The New Acropolis Museum: the Building and the Exhibition
17.10 - 18.00 Discussion
Dorothy H. Abramitis (conservator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Merritt Price (exhibition design manager, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
Kevin Marshall (leading specialist, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
Mag. Karoline Zhuber-Okrog (curator, Collection of Antiques, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Niki Dollis (Public Relations and International Liaison Coordinator, Organization for the Construction of the New Acropolis Museum, Athens)
Angela Vinci (architect, Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation)
Ferdinando Spagnuolo (managing director, Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation)

Tuesday, 21 October
10.00 Morning session
The Hermitage Theatre
Going beyond: the Museum Extension and Reconstruction

10.00 - 10.10 Moderators: Svetlana Adaksina (Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, State Hermitage Museum), Peter Reed (Senior Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, Museum of Modern Art, New York)
10.10 - 10.30 Gail M. Harrity(Chief Operating Officer, Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Re-Making a Modern Classic
10.30 - 10.50 Peter Reed (Senior Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, Museum of Modern Art, New York)
The Museum of Modern Art. Work in Progress
10.50 - 11.10 Elena Gagarina (Director, State Historical and Cultural Museums of the Kremlin, Moscow)
Formation of the Multifunctional Cultural and Restoration Centre in the Museums of the Moscow Kremlin
11.10 - 11.30 Dr. Taco Dibbits (Director of Collections, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
Building the New Rijksmuseum
11.30 - 12.00 - Break
12.00 - 12.20 Vladimir Bazhenov (Deputy Director for the Reconstruction, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg)
Project of the Reconstruction of the Mikhailovsky Palace Yards
12.20 - 12.40 Elena Savostina (Vice Director, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow)
Renovation of the Gallery in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is the First Step of the Museum Development Programme
12.40 - 13.00 Igor Mitichkin (Vice Director for Renovation and Restoration, State Historical Museum, Moscow)
Reconstruction of the Museum. The Museum Quarter
13.00 - 14.00 Discussion
Jay Levenson (Director of International Programs, Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Ekaterina Selezneva (Chief Curator, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)
Natalia Tolstaya (Research Secretary, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)
Elena Kalnitskaya (Curator of the Mikhailovsky Palace, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg)

Wednesday, 22 October
10.00 Morning session
The Hermitage Theatre
Transformations inside the Museum: Creating New Displays

10.00 - 10.10 Moderators: Dr. Carlos Picon (Head of the Department of Greek and Roman Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), Aleksey Levikin (Deputy Director, State Historical and Cultural Museums of the Kremlin, Moscow)
10.10 - 10.30 Jeffrey L. Daly(Senior Design Advisor to the Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Roman Gallery Installation
10.30 - 10.50 Sergey Kuznetsov (Curator of the Stroganov Palace, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg)
The "6+1" Formula - the Stroganov Palace on Its Way to 2011. The Principles of Display in a Historical Building
10.50 - 11.10 Aleksey Levikin (Deputy Director, State Historical and Cultural Museums of the Kremlin, Moscow)
The Moscow Kremlin Architectural History: A New Display in "Ivan the Great" Bell Tower
11.10 - 12.10 Discussion

13.30 Afternoon session
The Hermitage Theatre

Round-table discussion
Modernizing the Encyclopedic Museum
The ÀÌÎ/OMA Studio - the State Hermitage Museum

Hermitage 2014 Master Plan

AMO, the research and design group of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) founded by Rem Koolhaas (Rotterdam) and the State Hermitage Museum (St Petersburg) have been collaboratively developing a visionary master plan for the Hermitage to mark its 250th anniversary in 2014. The ongoing work will be presented and discussed.

13.30 - 13.40 Introduction to the Hermitage 2014 Master Plan by Mikhail Piotrovsky
13.40 - 14.40 Presentation of the Hermitage 2014 Master Plan by Rem Koolhaas
14.40-15.40 Open discussion with Mikhail Piotrovsky and Rem Koolhaas, led by the respondents Peter Reed, Valery Lukin, Hermann Parzinger, Anna Trofimova, Alexander Borovsky, Elena Kolovskaya and Dimitri Ozerkov
15.40 - 15.50 Closing remarks by Mikhail Piotrovsky