This museum displayed 74 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings from private German collections in the 1995 exhibition “Hidden Treasures Revealed.” In a sequence set in this museum, a blind woman explains the symbolism of Van Dyck’s Virgin with Partridges before she is turned around by a Catholic Marquis. British Museum director Neil Macgregor justified his 2014 decision to loan an Elgin Marble to this museum instead of Greece by calling it the other “first great museum of the Enlightenment.” This museum, which houses James Cox’s Peacock Clock, was founded for a collection that Johann Gotzkowsky assembled for Frederick the Great. Rembrandt’s Return of the Prodigal Son and the Jordan Staircase are in this museum, which is the setting of a single-shot film by Alexander Sokurov. For 10 points, what museum complex occupies the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg? ■END■
ANSWER: Hermitage Museum [or State Hermitage Museum; or Gosudarstvennyj Ermitazh; prompt on Winter Palace or Zimnij dvorets until “Winter Palace” is read] (Sokurov’s film is Russian Ark.)
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