Unseen Art: Pushing the Boundaries of Potential

Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum and Dr Shirin Melikova, Director of the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum

The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg is hosting an exhibition ‘Unseen Art: Pushing the Boundaries of Potential’ which is organized by the State Hermitage Museum and the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum. The exhibition project is primarily designed for individuals with visual disabilities. The exhibition opened 12 November 2021 and … -> Unseen Art: Pushing the Boundaries of Potential

Carpet museums

Opening of Ram Horns & Scorpion Tails. Nickle Arts Museum.

Jozan Magazine includes a lot of articles and images from carpet museums around the world. In this list we have selected what we think is the most important carpet museums when you travel around the world.

ICOC St. Petersburg tour

The Marple Hall in the Russian Ethnographic Museum

ICOC post conference tour to St. Peterburg took place 20-23 June 2011.
The tour included visits to several museums and among them the Kunstkamera, the Russian Ethnographic Museum (REM), the State Hermitage Museum and as a special organised event the carpet storage of REM.

The Road to Byzantium: Luxury Arts of Antiquity – Byzantine textiles

The Road to Byzantium: Luxury Arts of Antiquity - Byzantine textiles

This major exhibition is an extraordinary collection of classical Greek, Roman and Byzantine luxury artworks from The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. The exhibition include finely decorated silver and gold, Athenian red-figure vases, exquisite cameos and Byzantine textiles. The exhibition will be on view at the Hermitage Rooms, Somerset … -> The Road to Byzantium: Luxury Arts of Antiquity – Byzantine textiles