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Other Top Points From Saint Petersburg, Russia

St. Petersburg Port
Alexander Garden
Baptism of Our Lord
Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul
Cathedral of St. Andrew
Catherine Garden
Catherine's Palace
Church of the Annunciation on Vasilevsky
Church of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Gatchina
Leningrad Zoo
Moscow Victory Park
Museum of Applied Art
Museum of Cosmonautics and Rocket Technology
Museum of Dolls
Museum of Non-Conformist Art
Naval Cathedral of St. Nicholas
Oranienbaum (Lomonosov)
Pavlovsk
Peterhof Palace
Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God
Smolny Cathedral
Ss. Isidor and Nicholas
St. Isaac's Cathedral
Summer Garden
The Cruiser Aurora
Yelagin Ostrov
Zoological Museum


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Hermitage Museum

Address: Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya, 34

The State Hermitage occupies six magnificent buildings situated along the embankment of the River Neva, right in the heart of St Petersburg. The leading role in this unique architectural ensemble is played by the Winter Palace, the residence of the Russian tsars that was built to the design of Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli in 1754-62. This ensemble, formed in the 18th and 19th centuries, is extended by the eastern wing of the General Staff building, the Menshikov Palace and the recently constructed Repository. Put together throughout two centuries and a half, the Hermitage collections of works of art (over 3,000,000 items) present the development of the world culture and art from the Stone Age to the 20th century.





Official names
Federal Cultural Institution "The State Hermitage"
The State Hermitage

Legal address
Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya, 34
190000 St Petersburg, Russia

Director
Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky

About the collection
The collection contains around 3 million exhibit items, including:
paintings
16,783
works of graphic art
621,274
sculptures
12,556
works of applied art
298,775
archeological monuments
734,400
numismatics
1,125,323
other exhibit items
144,185

Creation of the museum
The museum was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great purchased a collection of Flemish and Dutch paintings (225) from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernest Gotzkowski.

Museum Complex
The museum's storerooms, exhibitions, departments and services are housed in 10 buildings, 7 of which are monuments of 18th- and 19th-century Russian culture.
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The following exhibitions are open to visitors:

Main Museum Complex
Palace Square, 2

Winter Palace of Peter the Great
Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya, 32

Menshikov Palace
Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya, 15

Museum of Porcelain
Prospekt Obukhovskoi Oborony, 151

Storage Facility of the State Hermitage in Staraya Derevnya
Zausadebnaya Street, 37A


Website: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html



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