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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact Only: September 18, 2007 Julie Carpenter Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens Tel. 202-243-3981 [log in to unmask] George Felcyn The PBN Company Tel. 202-466-6210 [log in to unmask] RUSSIAN CULTURAL LEADERS EXAMINE HOUSE MUSEUM LIBRARIANSHIP IN WASHINGTON, D.C. Washington, D.C. - Four Russian cultural leaders participating in the Open World Program will spend September 27, 2007 through October 7, 2007, in Washington, D.C. and New York City examining house museum librarianship. Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens will host the delegation. Managed by the independent Open World Leadership Center at the Library of Congress, Open World is designed to enhance understanding and capabilities for cooperation between the United States and the countries of Eurasia and the Baltic States by developing a network of leaders in the region who have gained significant, firsthand exposure to America's democratic, accountable government and free-market system. While in Washington, D.C., the delegates will visit Hillwood and the Phillips Collection to meet with their colleagues at house museum libraries. The delegates will also travel to New York, NY to visit the Frick Art Reference Library and the New York Public Library. The visiting delegates are: * Parizat Gadzhiyevna Bibiyeva, a research assistant from a city branch of the Dagestan Historical Architectural Museum * Konstantin Grigoryevich Bolenko, head of rare books, manuscripts and photos at the Arkhangelskoye Estate Museum outside Moscow * Oksana Aleksandrovna Kopteva, director of the Tsvetaeva Family Museum in Ivanovo * Yekaterina Aleksandrovna Sadchikova, a junior research fellow at the Lev Kassil Museum in Engels. - more - House Museum Librarianship - page 2 Andrei Khokhryakov, Press-Secretary of the Seventeenth Arbitration Court of Appeal, accompanies them as a facilitator. In Washington, D.C., the Open World delegation is scheduled to meet with curators and librarians at Hillwood, The Phillips Collection, and the Library of Congress, as well as museum educators at Hillwood and the National Building Museum. The delegates will travel to New York, NY for two days where they will spend a day with the staff at the New York Public Library and hear presentations by librarians and collections staff at the Morgan Library and Museum and the Frick Art Reference Library. In addition, program participants will have the opportunity to see the National Mall and Eastern Market in D.C. and will take an evening sight seeing tour of New York City. "Hillwood is delighted to host the first Open World delegation to examine libraries at historic house museums," said Frederick Fisher, executive director of Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens. "The delegates, hailing from small house museums across Russia, will meet colleagues at a wide range of museums and libraries, learning about the latest library technologies and cataloguing. We hope they will make professional contacts that will continue when the delegates return to their homes." Homestays will allow the Open World delegates to experience American family life. They will also take part in several cultural and community activities, including an American-style barbeque, touring the U.S. Capitol, and visiting Mount Vernon. The Open World Leadership Center has awarded a grant to Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens to administer this and similar exchanges in 2007. The U.S. Congress established Open World in 1999 to enhance understanding and capabilities for cooperation between the United States and Russia. In 2003, Congress made all post-Soviet states eligible for the program. Thanks to Open World, some 12,000 current and future Eurasian leaders have experienced American civil society and have been exposed to new ideas and practices that they can adapt for use in their own work. Open World also promotes partnerships and continued communications between delegates and their American hosts and professional counterparts. Open World currently operates exchanges for political and civic leaders from Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. For more information visit www.openworld.gov. Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens, the former residence of cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, is now home to a world-class collection of eighteenth-century French and imperial Russian decorative and fine arts. The 25 acre Estate also features 12 acres of formal gardens including a French Parterre and a Japanese-style garden. 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