State Hermitage and Gazprom Neft Launch Hermitage Days in Omsk

In the Hermitage-Siberia center the exhibition “One hundred years of fashion” will open. 1918-2018. Costume from the collection of the State Hermitage”. The exhibition will include more than a hundred costumes, accessories and decor items. The State Hermitage will show a significant part of the collection for the first time in Omsk. The exhibition will run until June 6, 2027.

With the support of Gazprom Neft’s social investment programme, the Hermitage Days will be held in an expanded format this year. From November 12 to 15, curatorial excursions, lectures by researchers and master classes of costume artists are held. Gazprom’s Friends of St. Petersburg project has prepared interactive classes for children. The Hermitage School of Restoration and the Museum Communication Laboratory were organized for specialists.

As noted by the Director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, such events acquaint visitors not only with the collections, but also with the restoration, technology, scientific and educational work of the museum.

The title of the Cultural Capital is an opportunity to show the rich cultural life of the Omsk region to the whole country. Therefore, it is important for us that this year was filled with really bright and significant events. One of them, of course, are the Days of the Hermitage in Omsk, shared Vitaly Hotsenko, Governor of the Omsk region.

On November 13, the first in the history of Omsk gala concert of Russian stars of the opera “Masterpieces of World Classics” is planned. The soloists of the Bolshoi, Mariinsky and Mikhailovsky Theatres will perform with the Omsk Academic Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Mikhail Golikov. The program included works of world classics and works by Omsk composer Vissarion Shebalin.

The project takes place in the year when Omsk is named the Cultural Capital of Russia – 2026. The partnership between the museum and the company began with the Hermitage Days in Serbia in 2023, and in 2025 they again held a joint event there. Then the exhibition "Peter the Great and Serbia" at the request of the Minister of culture of Russia Olga Lyubimova extended for two months.

Creating a cultural environment is an important area of our Hometowns social investment program. We are especially proud of such large-scale joint projects of Gazprom Neft and the State Hermitage Museum, which allow citizens to see works of art, hear performances of Russian opera stars, and participate in a series of large-scale educational events. All these events will serve to strengthen the cultural environment of Omsk, the development of the region and, of course, our enterprise, commented Kirill Morozov, General Director of the Omsk Refinery.

Gazprom Group’s investments in the development of Omsk include projects implemented with the participation of Gazprom Neft. Earlier, the company supported the creation of the Avangard Hockey Academy and the G-Drive Arena. With her participation in 2026, the reconstruction of the Victor Blinov Sports and Concert Complex was also completed. The site of the Hermitage Days was the Hermitage-Siberia Center, the first representative office of the State Hermitage Museum beyond the Urals.