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State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace

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State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace
Phone:
+7 812 710-90-79

Hours:
Sunday10:30am - 6pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday10:30am - 6pm
Wednesday10:30am - 9pm
Thursday10:30am - 6pm
Friday10:30am - 9pm
Saturday10:30am - 6pm


The State Hermitage Museum is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The second-largest art museum in the world, it was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an impressive collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky. The museum celebrates the anniversary of its founding each year on 7 December, Saint Catherine's Day. It has been open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three million items , including the largest collection of paintings in the world. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors. Apart from them, the Menshikov Palace, Museum of Porcelain, Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya, and the eastern wing of the General Staff Building are also part of the museum. The museum has several exhibition centers abroad. The Hermitage is a federal state property. Since July 1992, the director of the museum has been Mikhail Piotrovsky.Of the six buildings in the main museum complex, five—namely the Winter Palace, Small Hermitage, Old Hermitage, New Hermitage, and Hermitage Theatre—are open to the public. The entrance ticket for foreign tourists costs more than the fee paid by citizens of Russia and Belarus. However, entrance is free of charge the first Thursday of every month for all visitors, and free daily for students and children. The museum is closed on Mondays. The entrance for individual visitors is located in the Winter Palace, accessible from the Courtyard.
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