Saturday, August 01, 2009

The Hermitage, Part I (St Petersburg)

The Hermitage is one of the world's great art museums! Here is a bit of what we saw...

One of the great staircases...


One of the many beautiful parquet floors.

One of the rooms, now a display hall. The glass display contains a clock. That's our guide with her back to us.


Detail from the peacock clock. On the hour, the wings would move, the rooster at right would crow and an owl not seen would blink its eyes.
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