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Hermitage museum cats facebook. Hermitage Cats Save the Day. The money will go to about 50 cats that live in the basement of the State Hermitage Museum in Russia. The Hermitage Museum is famous for housing over 60 stray cats whose job is to catch mice on the museum.

Petersburg where the cats are employed to hunt the vermin that threaten the great. Photo courtesy Olga MaltsevaAFPGetty Images. Nothing limits the cats they can free walk around but not in the exposition halls.

How to visit the Hermitage. In the summertime they prefer staying in the museums yard enjoying the sun and not being. The Hermitage Museum Gardens was founded by William and Florence Sloane in 1937 and offers changing.

Cats have been working for the Hermitage as mousers since the 18th century. One of the largest collection points for cats was Tyumen and residents of several Siberian cities sent their feline pets here for further transpiration to. The cats stay within the museums basement they usually additionally seem on the embankment and on the sq.

More than fifty cats have taken up residence at the Hermitage where they are welcomed fed and cared for. Take a fresh look at the great works of Old Masters. Hermitage Museum and Gardens Norfolk Virginia.

Mary Ilyushina and Amy Woodyatt CNN Published 7th December 2020. The Hermitage has had a feline presence since 1745 when the Winter Palace served as. As a kitten in 2006 he was spotted stranded on an ice floe rescued by the crew and has remained ever since Hermitage Cats Today Museum Secrets TV 2012.