Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace – The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace – The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace – The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg is the eighteenth solo studio album from British musician Brian Eno, released in 1997, and re-released in 2000. This album should not be confused with a 1976 bootleg named "Music For Palaces". In May 2005, Eno premiered his then-new album, Another Day on Earth, at the same venue. An Opal release, with no catalogue number, this title is only available from EnoShop. The music on the album was made for an "Installation" - a
Hermitage Museum on permanent display in several small rooms in the northeastern corner of the Winter Palace on the first floor. In 1993, the Russian government gave eastern wing of the nearby General Staff Building across the Palace Square to the Hermitage and the new exhibition rooms in 1999. Since 2003, the Great Courtyard of the Winter Palace has been open to the public providing another entrance to the museum. Also in 2003, the Museum of Porcelain opened as a part of the Hermitage on the basis of the Imperial Porcelain Factory. In December 2004, the museum discovered another looted work of