State Hermitage Museum Cats

Always on this day museum visitors can see the basements of the Winter Palace where the cats live.

State hermitage museum cats. About 50 cats live in the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Theyre not new theyve been there since the mid-1700s. Russias hermitage museum is stuffed with cats by alanna martinez 111715 301pm this picture taken on october 14 2015 reveals a cat in entrance of the state hermitage museum in st.

Cats in the museum. It was founded in 1754 by the Queen Catherine the Great and houses a gigantic collection of over three million items. The state hermitage museum itself has three individuals who act as caretakers of these cats and a press secretary to deal with the cats.

AFP Photos For more than a century visitors have marveled at the Hermitage Museums precious collections and for just as long dozens of cats have prowled the Saint Petersburg palaces sprawling cellars. A file photo shows a cat in front of the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. The State Hermitage Museum in St.

The Hermitage cats are official considered as highly-qualified specialists of cleaning the museum from rats. A cat guard is seen in front of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Hermitage Cat Day.

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. PRIORITY The famous Hermitage Museum keeps 74 cats to keep its basements mice-free. Hermitage Cats Save the Day premiered on the Hermitage Theater stage in 2013 and in the United States at the University of Alabama School.

Petersburg is home to some of the worlds most valued treasuresas well as about 70 cats. While the museums feline residents are not permitted inside the. The cats of the Hermitage live.