The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, is announcing an auction of tokenised versions of several masterpieces from its collection to raise funds. Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh and Leonardo da Vinci are amongst the artists on the non-fungible token (NFT) sale. It will take place at the end of August on the Binance online marketplace.
Hermitage is about to sell Monet, Giorgione, Van Gogh and Da Vinci painting digital copies as NFTs to raise funds. Each NFT copy will be signed by the Hermitage director.