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34 Palace Embankment, Dvortsovy Municipal Okrug, Central District, Saint Petersburg, Russia: Collection size: 3 million: Visitors: 2,812,913 visitors (2022) Director: Mikhail Piotrovsky: Public transit access: Admiralteyskaya station: Website: hermitagemuseum.org
- 1764; 259 years ago
- Mikhail Piotrovsky
- 2,812,913 visitors (2022)
Guide to Saint Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum, including visitor information for all sections of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia.
- State Russian Museum. A bust of Tsar Peter I guards the State Russian Museum. Photograph by Jeff Heimsath. To immerse yourself in the art of this country, head to the sprawling State Russian Museum, home of the world’s largest collection of Russian works: more than 400,000 pieces spanning the 10th-21st centuries.
- Hermitage Museum. The unquestionable crown jewel of Russia’s museums—not just St. Petersburg’s—is the Hermitage, a vast complex that ranks as the second largest museum in the world.
- Erarta Museum. A newcomer to St. Petersburg’s museum scene is the clever Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, housed in a neoclassical Stalinist building once home to the Synthetic Rubber Research Institute of the Soviet Union.
- Fabergé Museum. In 1885, Tsar Alexander III asked St. Petersburg jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé to design an Easter surprise for his wife, Empress Maria Feodorovna.
List of museums in Saint Petersburg. This is a list of museums in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Biographical museums. Writers. Anna Akhmatova museums. Anna Akhmatova Literary and Memorial Museum (Fountain House) Anna Akhmatova. The Silver Age (in Avtovo) Alexander Pushkin museums. National Pushkin Museum [1] - of Alexander Pushkin, with branches:
The State Russian Museum (Russian: Государственный Русский музей), formerly the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III (Russian: Русский Музей Императора Александра III), on Arts Square in Saint Petersburg, is the world's largest depository of Russian fine art.
- 1895
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- 2,260,231 (2021), second globally
About. The State Russian Museum is the world’s largest depository of Russian fine art, housed in a unique architectural complex in the historical centre of St Petersburg. It was the first museum of national art, initiated by Emperor Alexander III.
Tour the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, one of the most significant collections of art in the world. (more) See all videos for this article. The Hermitage holdings include nearly three million items dating from the Stone Age to the present.
