Official names
Federal Cultural Institution "The State Hermitage"
The State Hermitage
Legal address
Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya, 34
190000 St Petersburg, Russia
Director
Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky
The International Advisory Board
Board of Trustees of the State Hermitage
Museum
About the collection
The collection contains 2 970 214 items, including:
| paintings |
16 851 |
| works of graphic art |
622 172 |
| sculptures |
12 623 |
| works of applied art |
301 512 |
| archeological objects |
738 389 |
| numismatics |
1 132 627 |
| other exhibit items |
146 040 |
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
The Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory
Prospekt Obukhovskoi Oborony, 151
The Staraya Derevnya Restoration and Storage Centre
Zausadebnaya Street, 37A
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