was here. the precious stone. then the soviet union finished. rose: concluding remarks tonight from mark kelner vice president of the hermitage foundation. it s not an art museum, it s a museum of civilization. it s a museum that catherine when catherine the great founded it, we re having the 250th 250th centennial she s like, look, russia demands and deserves a museum much like the world s never seen. that was very much her personality and she started collecting. everyone s thinking she s collecting work that s very ancient. but the joke is she s collecting work that s contemporary to her and i like to think that the work that we re doing at the foundation is work that s contemporary to us. 20th century, 21st century. rose: the hermitage museum in saint petersburg, mikhail piotrovsky and mark kelner, when we continue. rose: funding for charlie rose has been provided by: additional funding provided by: and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and informat
was here. the precious stone. then the soviet union finished. rose: concluding remarks tonight from mark kelner vice president of the hermitage foundation. it s not an art museum, it s a museum of civilization. it s a museum that catherine when catherine the great founded it, we re having the 250th 250th centennial she s like, look, russia demands and deserves a museum much like the world s never seen. that was very much her personality and she started collecting. everyone s thinking she s collecting work that s very ancient. but the joke is she s collecting work that s contemporary to her and i like to think that the work that we re doing at the foundation is work that s contemporary to us. 20th century, 21st century. rose: the hermitage museum in saint petersburg, mikhail piotrovsky and mark kelner, when we continue. rose: funding for charlie rose has been provided by: additional funding provided by: and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and informat
we told the true story. it is a kind of frame which helps you understand what really is needed to create something that will look good as the good sides of imperial russia. we have a project called great hermitage.- we have central buildings and we have built big buildings for open storage to show everything we have, to be successful for the public. all the carriages, all the furniture. our goal is to bring to hermitage collections of american heart. to be a great state means a great army, good economy and great collections in museums. we live for the future and we live because of the past. charlie: tonight we tour inside one of the largest and oldest repositories of art and culture in the world. all of my life i have wanted to visit the hermitage museum in st. petersburg, russia. it s where catherine the great began assembling her personal art collection in 1764. today it houses items from the , antiquities to the largest painting collection in the world. on a recent trip to
demolished and the map of the soviet union was put here, made of precious stone. rose: and concluding remarks from mark kelner, vice president of the hermitage foundation. it s not an art museum. it s a museum of civilization. it s a museum, when catherine the great founded it, we re having our 250th centennial, she s, like, look, russia demands and deserves a museum much like nothing world s ever seen. that was very much her personality, and she started collecting. what s interesting is everyone thought she was collecting work that was very ancient but the joke among everyone is she was collecting work that s contemporary, 20th, 21s 21st century. rose: a tour of the hermitage when we continue. and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. i grew up in this museum. my fathers was director of the museum, 26 years, for the first plac
demolished and the map of the soviet union was put here, made of precious stone. rose: and concluding remarks from mark kelner, vice president of the hermitage foundation. it s not an art museum. it s a museum of civilization. it s a museum, when catherine the great founded it, we re having our 250th centennial, she s, like, look, russia demands and deserves a museum much like nothing world s ever seen. that was very much her personality, and she started collecting. what s interesting is everyone thought she was collecting work that was very ancient but the joke among everyone is she was collecting work that s contemporary, 20th, 21s 21st century. rose: a tour of the hermitage when we continue. and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. i grew up in this museum. my fathers was director of the museum, 26 years, for the first plac