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 literally "people who live alone", which is in turn derived from ἐρημός ("erēmos"), "desert". The building was initially given this name because of its exclusivity - in its early days, only very few people were allowed to visit. Originally, the only building housing the collection was the "Small Hermitage". Today, the Hermitage Museum encompasses many buildings on the Palace Embankment and its neighbourhoods. Apart from the Small Hermitage, the museum now also includes the "Old Hermitage" (also called "Large Hermitage"), the "New Hermitage", the "Hermitage Theatre", and the "Winter Palace", the former main residence of the Russian tsars. In recent