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CODART TWAALF Study Trip: program

Program

Monday, 21 September
Helsinki
Afternoon Arrival in Helsinki. Sokos Hotel Vaakuna
Asema-aukio 2
14:30 The group assembles in the hotel lobby
14:30-16:30 City walking tour of Helsinki
16:30-17:30 Visit to Helsinki Bourse Club (Fabianinkatu 14 A)
17:30-18:00 Walk to Kauppatori Market Square
18:00-18:15 Ferry to Suomenlinna Island
18:15-18:45 Walk to restaurant
18:45-21:15 Welcome dinner on Suomenlinna Island. Restaurant Walhalla
Suomenlinna A10
21:15-21:45 Walk to ferry
22:00-22:15 Ferry to Kauppatori Market Square
Tuesday, 22 September
Helsinki
08:30-09:00 Participants assemble in the hotel lobby and walk to the National Museum of Finland (use auditorium entrance, ground floor). National Museum of Finland
Mannerheimintie 34
09:00-09:30 Coffee and tea
09:30-09:45 Welcome and introduction to the collection
09:45-10:00 Presentation over Vrouw Maria by Eero Ehanti
10:00-10:30 Visit to the collection with Jouni Kuurne
10:30-11:30 Viewing of works from the National Museum’s historic house and manor house museums and the reserve collections in the Restoration department with Jouni Kuurne.
11:30-12:00  Walk to the Sinebrychoff Art Museum Sinebrychoff Art Museum
Bulevardi 40
12:00-13:00 Lunch at Café Fanny
Visit to the Sinebrychoff Art Museum
13:00-14:00 Visit to the exhibition Joys of life: the golden age of Dutch and Flemish painting, of 17th-century Dutch genre paintings from collections in Finland and Tallinn with Minerva Keltanen. Kadi Polli and Greta Koppel available for questions.
14:00-16:30 Group visits:
– Print room and Restoration department with
Reetta Kuojärvi-Närhi (curator)
– Permanent collection with Minerva Keltanen
15:15 Groups switch
16:30-17:00 Walk to Belgian Embassy Residence
17:00-18:00 Reception at the Belgian Residence Belgian residence
Kalliolinnantie 5
18:00-18:05 Walk to the Netherlands Embassy Residence, Villa Kleineh Netherlands Residence
Villa Kleineh
Itäinen Puistotie 7
18:05-19:00 Reception at the Netherlands Residence
Wednesday, 23 September
St. Petersburg
05:45-06:25 Participants check-out of hotel and have simple breakfast in the
hotel lobby
06:25-06:45 Walk to train station
07:00-14:15 Travel by train to St. Petersburg
14:15-15:00 Bus to hotel
15:00 Check-in hotel Nevsky Hotel Aster
Bolshaya Konushennaya ul 25
16:15-17:00 Participants meet in the hotel lobby and walk to the Kunstkamera
Visit to Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography – Kunstkamera and Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography – Kunstkamera
Universitetskaya nab. 3
17:00-19:25 – Kunstkamera with Anna Radziun (curator) Universitetskaya nab. 3
– Ethnographic collection and Lomonosov Museum
– Maria Sibylla Merian drawings at the Institution of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, RAS Archives with Natalia Kopaneva
(head of department of publications and exhibitions)
17:45, 18:35 Groups switch
19:00-19:30 Reception at the observatorium of the Kunstkamera
Thursday, 24 September
St. Petersburg
08:30 Participants meet in the hotel lobby
08:30-09:00 Walk to the State Hermitage Museum
Visit to the State Hermitage Museum
09:00-11:50 Visit to the Dutch masters collection with Irina Sokolova
11:50 Group gathers at the meeting point: foyer before the theatre
entrance on the first floor.
12:00-13:00 Lunch at the employee canteen
13:00-15:00 Session 1 group visits:
– Drawing room with Alexei Larionov (curator of Dutch and Flemish
drawings)
– Viewing of works from the depots in the Restoration department
with Irina Sokolova
15:00 Groups are brought back to the meeting point
15:00-17:00 Session 2 group visits:
– Drawing room with Alexei Larionov
– Print room with Roman Grigoryev (head of Print section)
– Flemish masters with Natalia Grizay (head of department of
Old Master paintings)
– Free time
17;00 End of group visits. Museum open until 18:00.
Participants are free until 20:00.
20:00 Group assembles at the entrance of the Menshikov Palace Menshikov Palace
Universitetskaya nab. 15
20:00-20:30 Visit to the Dutch and Flemish masters collection with Irina Sokolova
20:30-22:30 Dinner
Friday, 25 September
St. Petersburg
08:30 Participants meet in the hotel lobby
08:30-09:00 Walk to the State Hermitage Museum
Visit to the Hermitage Museum in groups:
09:00-11:00 – Viewing of works from the depots in the Restoration department
with Irina Sokolova
– Visit to the Print room with Roman Grigoryev
– Visit to the Flemish masters with Natalia Grizay
– Visit to the Numismatics department with
Olga Valentinovna Chizhevskaya (curator of medals)
11:00-12:15 Free time
12:15 Group gathers at the meeting point
12:15-13:00 Walk to the boat and eat bag lunches on the pier
13:00-13:30 Travel by boat (boat company: Meteor) to Peterhof
13:30 Welcome by Elena Kalnitskaya (director)
13:30-16:00 Visit to the Monplaisir Palace and Grand Palace with Vitalia Ardamatskaya (curator of paintings)
16:00-16:15 Coffee and tea. Farewell Gerdien, Norbert and Bernard.
16:15-17:15 Free time
17:20 Meet at the pier
17:30-18:00 Return on boat to St. Petersburg
End of study trip program
Optional program in St. Petersburg and surroundings
Saturday 26, September
07:50 Participants meet in the hotel lobby
08:00-09:30 Travel by bus to Pavlovsk
09:30-12:20 Visit to Pavlovsk with Alexey Guzanov (chief curator) and Pavlovsk
Nina Stadnichuk (curator of paintings). Catherine Phillips
accompanies group as interpreter.
Pavlovsk
Revolutsii ul.
12:20-13:30 Lunch at Restorany Pavlovska
13:30-14:00 Travel by bus to Tsarskoe Selo
14:00-17:00 Visit to Tsarkoe Selo with Iraida Bott (vice director) and
Larisa Bardovskaya (curator). Catherine Phillips
accompanies group as interpreter.
Tsarkoe Selo
Sadovaya ul. 7
17:00-18:30 Travel back to St. Petersburg with the bus
Sunday 27, September
08:00 Participants check-out of the hotel and leave baggage in storage
08:30 Participants meet in the hotel lobby and walk to Nevsky Prospekt
metro station (take the green line to Pl. Alexandra Nevskogo
station).
09:00-10:45 Visit to Alexander Nevsky Lavra with Bas van der Plas Alexander Nevsky Monastery
Pl. Alexandra Nevskogo
10:45-11:30 Group travels by metro to Museum of the History of Religion pl. Alexandra Nevskogo (take the yellow line to Sadovaya/Sennaya Pl. stop).
11:30-13:00 Visit to the Museum of the History of Religion (including the depot) with Tatiana Vinogradova (curator of collection of European art) Museum of the History of Religion
Pochtamtskaya ul. 14
End of program