Photo credit: The Catherine Palace in Tsarskoe Selo, St. Petersburg / Alex 'Florstein' Fedorov / en.wikipedia.org (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The Tsarskoye Selo museum plans to develop cooperation with Chinese and Turkish colleagues, TASS reports. The negotiations are already being held. According to the director of the museum Olga Taratynova, an exchange of exhibitions from both sides is expected. She hopes that by autumn the plans for next year would take concrete shape.
The head of the museum noted that now specialists from China, together with their Russian colleagues, are carrying out restoration work in the private chambers of Empress Catherine the Second, which are located in the Zubovsky wing of the Catherine Palace. They are recreating the Chinese panels that were used to decorate the walls of one of the halls.
Taratynova explained that no foreign projects were planned for the second half of this year, so the exhibition program did not have to be adjusted due to the political situation. For several years, the museum has been doing a lot of work inside the country, she added. In particular, they prepared a large-scale traveling exhibition "Peter the Great. The Beginning of the Amber Road." It is dedicated to the 350th anniversary of the first Russian emperor.
The Museum-Reserve is also preparing to celebrate the anniversaries of Russia's first Tsarskoye Selo Railway and the founding of the Trans-Siberian Railway. A large inter-museum exhibition project ''Uniting Russia: from the Tsarskoye Selo Railway to the Great Siberian Route'' is being developed with the participation of the Russian Railways.
Russkiy Mir
