The Hermitage launches an NFT auction with digital copies of works of art – Bits Media

State Hermitage Museum and Binance Exchange Launch NFT Auction to Sell Tokenized Works of Art, which will last from 31 August to 7 september.

According to the publication "Fontanka.ru", 31 August in 15:00 The State Hermitage will start selling NFT from the first to The history of the digital collection of works, released by the largest museum of Russia on the basis of the St. Petersburg Assembly. The auction will take place on the Binance NFT marketplace and will last until 7 september.

NFT with digital copies of works of art include objects from the Hermitage collection: «Madonna Litta» Leonardo da Vinci, Judith Giorgone, "Lilac bush" Vincent Van Gogh, Vasily Kandinsky’s “VII composition” and “Garden corner in Montgeron” Claude Monet. All tokens are created in duplicate: One will be stored in the museum, And the second will be sold at auction.

All digital copies were signed by the director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky. The starting price of each lot - 10 000 Busd. The proceeds from sales will go to the state Hermitage. All Binance exchange users will be able to participate in the auction. Piotrovsky noted:

“We are not going to resolve with the help of tokens financial issues, We have no market expectations, related to their release. We want to see, how this form will be perceived. NFT is a philosophy, This is the aesthetics of possession. Digital copies of art of art fill the Internet, Where, in fact, Everyone has access to them, But NFT is a sense of property, And in our case - a sense of involvement in the great museum ".

Recall, What about the plans for the NFT museum for the first time became known in July. Besides, At the beginning of the month, the Hermitage accused the leader of Rammstein of illegally selling NFT with images of the museum.