Talk:Hermitage Museum

message: In the official website of the museum, it refers to itself as The State Hermitage Museum. I suppose the page shouldn't be moved as the shorter form seems to be more widely used, but probably the full name should be mentioned (as of now, State Hermitage Museum is a redirect). --Jūzeris | say what? | 08:48, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree that in the museum's official website, the museum is named formally in English as "The State Hermitage Museum", so I believe that the name in the lead sentence and infobox should be consistent with the full name in the official website. -- Blairall (talk) 05:04, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: English-language name of the museum

message: "What is worse" makes a judgement.  It is not wikipedia's job to make judgements of good/bad, beeter/worse.  It is wikipedia's job only to present the facts.-86.138.233.25 18:29, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  An explanation of why I deleted 3 words from this article 

message: *The article states that the Hermitage Museum is the "most important" museum of human history and culture in the world. I removed that statement in accordance to Wikipedia's style guide, because it's not a verifiable fact but merely someone's opinion, and that it gives no actual information about the museum.
*:Not at all. It says "one of the most important". While I don't believe that the phrase is mine, yet the statement is factually correct. If you remove it, I would not revert: the fact is obvious enough. --Ghirla -трёп- 19:13, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm very unimpressed. This is immature. 

message: Perhaps it would be better if this article describes which are the six buildings that forms the Hermitage Museum.  It is also helpful if a template was created that would includes all the buildings (Winter Palace, Hermitage Theatre...) of the Hermitage Museum. --67.2.149.14 08:05, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hermitage Museum buildings 

message: BBC News article from July 2006 86.136.0.145 14:27, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Theft from the Hermitage

message: Are there any sources or references for any of the information in this article?  None are listed.  Maybe we should add the  template... Sewebster 22:37, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: Big thank you to the writers of this concise but comprehensive article on the State Hermitage Museum. It inspired me to visit this wonderful museum and I was not disappointed. "Superb" and "brethtaking" are too mild to describe its interiors and collections. Would appreciate constructive additions to this article both pictures and information. 84.52.77.203 11:12, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment after visiting the Hermitage museum on 2 Sept 2007 

message: Why have not all previous owners to this Palace been listed, and then specially not the last one?? There are families missing!! Kindly do not forget that this "Museum" has been taken from the rightful owner at gun point by the Bolscheviks in 1917, and then after that never returned to the last owner family. Whomever dealing with stolen property - I think there is a name for that in most languages, not to mention moral aspects. H. von Börtzell-Szuch Stockholm, Sweden.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.114.195.150 (talk) 14:05, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments to who typed this article of this page 

message: I am thinking of considerably expanding the Winter Palace page but before I do has there been any discussion of   merge between this and that page. I'm not bothered either way but obviously I don't want to get this to FA level and then have a merge tag stuck on it. Giano (talk) 18:43, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I checked some other articles on Wiki for comparison, and found that we only have one article for Museo del Prado, but for Louvre we also have Palais du Louvre.  I think the latter makes more sense here.  The Winter Palace has more history before becoming the Hermitage than since.  The Hermitage doesn't just occupy the Winter Palace.  There's a lot of overlap, but it's not complete, and so a merge doesn't seem quite right to me.  I think best would be to have the "Main article: Winter Palace" and vice-versa on the articles.  Plus it's hard for me to imagine having Winter Palace or Hermitage Museum be a redirect.  Or at least that's my initial reaction.  Is that what you were thinking as well? --JayHenry (talk) 19:31, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

text: One is a museum, the other is a palace- two fundamentally different things. And what if they moved the whole museum to Vegas? :-) That would be a messy unmerge. There should be plenty of material for two complete FAs. BTW, I'm not entirely joking about the Vegas part - the "museum" article should be written such that it wouldn't change much if the collection moved to new digs, while the Winter Palace article gets the bulk of material about the physical plant. Stan (talk) 21:29, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge ? 

message: The article states this as fact, but I think it needs a citation. Also, perhaps it needs to be clarified, if it was the case, whether it was targeted as a cultural repository or merely as a large building in an area where they wanted to shell. Historian932 (talk) 14:29, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference for Nazis targeting Hermitage specifically? 

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message: Just thought this would be interesting, the BBC had an article on Hermitage's cats in 2007: Hermitage palace is cat's whiskers. I have also seen a French documentary which name translated as "Cats in Tzar's country." Those cats are part of the palace since the 18th Century. Perhaps this is worth adding to the article? -- DTRY (talk) 09:57, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hermitage cats 

message: I've always thought the word had something to do with hermits but a building built for a thousand people is obviously not that.
What is the origin of the word?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.119.205.88 (talk) 15:02, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is it called "The Hermitage" 

message: The link to Ermitage Ferrara in Italy doesn't work, the site of the castle is not mentioning it either. it seems that Ermitage Ferrara is old news and should be removedOogstweg (talk) 21:56, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ferrara, Italy 

message: Mikhael (Borisovitch) Piotrovsky is named in the introductory paragraphs but this disagrees with the 'List of Directors' which comes later!!! Joking99a (talk) 06:44, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  Someone had vandalized the 'List of Directors', so I have fixed that now. According to the official museum website here, Mikhail Piotrovski's father, Boris Piotrovski, was Director of The State Hermitage Museum from 1964 until his death in 1990. Following his father’s death, Mikhail was invited, in 1991, to join the Hermitage staff as the First Deputy Director. In July 1992, he was appointed Director of the Museum by a decree of the Prime Minister. -- Blairall (talk) 03:51, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who is the Director in 2016? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The official webpage of Hermitage has suddenly changed its exhbition size from 66,842 to 100,000 square meters. I wonder what could motivate such a big change, as well as the passage from a very precise number to this over the top figure. I suspect that it could be State propaganda to be able to steal the first place from the Louvre...
https://hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/about/facts_and_figures/?lng=en
LinguisticStudent (talk) 00:05, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with exhibition size