Hermitage Museum Cats Facebook. The cats live in the museum's basement, and they are seen on the square during the summer. On 13 may 2017, the state hermitage celebrated the day of the hermitage cat, an event that has long become a positive tradition, an important element of the museum’s life and even one of its legends.
Selected mainly from the collections of the state hermitage. Petersburg museum — or should that be mewseum? The hermitage's cats guard the museum's artworks from mice.
You can visit them in the museum.
5 june 2020 cultured isolation. Moscow (cnn) — a generous french philanthropist has left a sum of money to some unusual beneficiaries in his will — a bunch of cats living in the basement of the state hermitage museum in russia. 5 june 2020 cultured isolation. Cats still guard the palace’s art galleries and cellars (the hermitage has nearly 20 km of them!) from rats and mice.