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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 in ....
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 in ....
we were telling, chastising other people. secondly, i believe that currently, there s a system that exists that is on a bipartisan, bicameral basis, and that is that the appropriators, when they become aware of something that may be exactly what the gentleman and mr. mcgovern was talking about, it would be a very difficult issue we should properly make sure that this country knew we were not going to find. come back through the congress, too, and i think we do the right thing. the appropriators have another foreign account mrs. granger has the ability to withhold match up and i think instead of an official going forward and holding these governments accountable on their own, i think it should come from the people who gave the money. not the people that represent the money, so, i want to be a part of working with you. if you get to that point, also. is there anything further from any member of this committee for this panel? seeing done, i want to thank you all three of y ....
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 t ....