Hermitage Museum Cats Website

In 2007 the museum administration began adopting stray cats and in 2011 they started the Catfest an annual celebration of the Hermitages cat population.

Hermitage museum cats website. If you need The Hermitage Cats. A Hermitage cat. The cats first took up residence inside the Hermitage well before it was a museum in 1745 when Empress Elisabeth put out a call for the finest cats of Kazan to help catch mice in what was.

Around 70 cats guard the grounds of the Hermitage museum. Over the past decade the cats have become as popular as the museums collection the Hermitage staff said. Once a motley crew of frightened strays hiding half-starving in the palaces basement the Hermitages cats are now a well-loved well-fed part of the museums family.

The hermitage cats are a gaggle of cats residing within the hermitage museum in saint petersburg russia. See more ideas about hermitage museum hermitage petersburg. A frenchman has left cash to 50 cats who stay in russias hermitage museum.

There is a part of me the registrarcollections managerdead conservator that was moaning Nooooo in my head. Russia and St Petersburg Albums. Guided excursions programmes and digital academy.

Photo is taken from the website. Petersburg to the court of His Imperial Majesty. The Hermitage hosts an annual party for the cats and has a website where locals.

As of 2015 visitors may apply to adopt one of the Hermitage Cats. Russias hermitage museum is stuffed with cats by alanna martinez 111715 301pm this picture taken on october 14 2015 reveals a cat in entrance of the state hermitage museum in st. The cats now numbering about 70 live in the Hermitage since its foundation in 1764 to protect the mice from the numerous works of art that house the galleries of the gallery.