Hermitage Museum
The Hermitage Museum (Эрмитаж) in St. Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest and oldest art galleries and museums of human history and culture in the world. The vast Hermitage collections are displayed in six buildings, founded by Catherine II of Russia in 1764 and opened in public since 1852. The main building is the Winter Palace. This was the official residence of the Russian Tsars.
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 View of (from left) the Hermitage Theatre, Old Hermitage, and Small Hermitage | |
| Established | 1764 |
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| Location | 34 Palace Embankment, Dvortsovy Municipal Okrug, Central District, Saint Petersburg, Russia[1] |
| Collection size | 3 million[2] |
| Visitors | 1,649,443 visitors (2021)[3] |
| Director | Mikhail Piotrovsky |
| Public transit access | Admiralteyskaya station |
| Website | hermitagemuseum |
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Collections
changeStrong points of the Hermitage collection of Western art include Michelangelo, Giambattista Pittoni, Leonardo da Vinci, Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Poussin, Claude Lorraine, Watteau, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Canova, Rodin, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Picasso, and Matisse. There are several more collections. Among the collections are the Russian imperial regalia, an assortment of Faberge jewellery, and the largest existing collection of ancient gold from Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
Cats
changeSome cats lives on the museum grounds. They are named the Hermitage cats. They are an added attraction for tourists.
References
change- ↑ "About the State Hermitage Museum". Hermitagemuseum.org. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
- ↑ "Hermitage in Figures and Facts". Hermitagemuseum.org. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
- ↑ The Art Newspaper annual survey, March 28, 2022.