Museums of Russia: Exhibition “Jewels with Secrets. From the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries” opened in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg

The exhibition Jewels with Secrets. From the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries has opened in the Blue Bedroom of the Winter Palace (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg). For the first time ever, the exposition brings together pieces of jewellery from the collections of the State Hermitage Museum that contain various secrets, such as hiding compartments, surprises, hidden meanings.

The exposition features one hundred twenty objects from the 16th – 21st centuries. These are rings, snuffboxes, watches, medallions, posy holders, inkwells, canes, music boxes. They were created by Western European and Russian jewelers and are admired for their ingenious invention and craftsmanship.