Visitors to the Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin Museum and the Hermitage were suddenly evacuated
photo: frame from the video. source: social
Visitors of the Pushkin Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, the GES-2 House of Culture in Moscow, and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg were unscheduled evacuated on Saturday.
The video of the evacuation activities was published telegram channels.
TASS writes that the press service of the House of Culture stated that visitors were taken outside after an anonymous call about “mining” the building.
In the telegram channel of the Museum named after . Pushkin, there was a message that the building was closed for technical reasons, and purchased tickets can be returned via an electronic application.
The Tretyakov Gallery reported that the buildings in Lavrushinsky Lane were temporarily closed, and guests who did not have time to finish the tour would be able to visit the gallery on the same tickets within 14 days.
The rest of the museums of the gallery work regularly. The administration did not indicate the reasons for the closure of the museums.
The 78 channel reported that visitors to the Hermitage were asked to leave the museum for technical reasons.