Jun 24, 2004 • 1 min read

Russian museum chief not impressed with loud Macca gig

The director of St Petersburg's Hermitage Museum, Mikhail Piotrovski, wants no more concerts held outside the gallery after vibrations from Paul McCartney's gig threatened its artworks.

The director of St Petersburg's Hermitage Museum has demanded no more gigs are held outside his gallery following the Paul McCartney gig there last weekend. Director Mikhail Piotrovski explained that the vibrations caused by open air gig were potentially very "damaging" to the museum's valuable artworks and as a result his team had to "prepare for this concert like we would for a flood" in order to ensure nothing was damaged. Piotrovski wants to city to ban concerts from taking place so near to his museum in the future.

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