The State Hermitage Museum

The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg holds an honorable place, located in the former imperial palace. Exhibitions change regularly, allowing visitors to admire each of the three million works of art, including pieces by Rembrandt and Picasso.

The State Hermitage possesses a collection of about three million works of art and monuments of world culture. It includes paintings, graphic art, sculpture, applied arts, archaeological finds, and numismatic material.

1764 is considered the founding date of the Hermitage, when Catherine II acquired a collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant J.E. Gotzkowsky. The museum celebrates its founding day annually on December 7th – St. Catherine's Day.

The Hermitage consists of:

• The Main Museum Complex, Palace Embankment, 32–38;
• The Winter Palace;
• The Small Hermitage;
• The Old (Great) Hermitage;
• The Hermitage Theatre;
• The New Hermitage;
• The Winter Palace Reserve House;
• The General Staff Building, Palace Square, 6–8;
• Menshikov Palace, Universitetskaya Embankment, 15;
• The Winter Palace of Peter I, Palace Embankment, 34;
• The Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory, Obukhovskoy Oborony Avenue, 151;
• The Restoration and Storage Centre "Staraya Derevnya", Zausadebnaya Street, 37;
• The Stock Exchange, Birzhevaya Square, 4;

For detailed information about exhibitions, see here: www.hermitagemuseum.org