The joint program of the Vladimir Potanin Foundation and the State Hermitage Museum started in 2005.
Annually 100 grants are given to the best employees of the Hermitage, who contribute greatly to the development of the museum. The grant’s amount is 36,000 Rubles.
Grant support covers a wide variety of museum activities: keeping custody, restoration, making collection catalogues, writing books as well as development of budget methods, making electronic catalogues, legal activities, work with museum alarm system, and projects promotion.
