The Hermitage
The real Hermitage Museum is in St Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), Russia, but they have a branch office, or as they call it a Space Station, in Amsterdam. Here they show a selection of items from mission control, rotated every six months, as well as Dutch paintings borrowed from the other collections in town. The current exhibition features pairs of similar objects from different time periods or cultures. It’s good to see the cross-cultural importance of battle swans. OK, the second…