Explore the State Hermitage museum — the greatest treasury of St. Petersburg, the largest museum in Russia, and one of the largest in the world! A guided tour around Hermitage is an absolute must for all visitors to St. Petersburg and will leave most vivid and unforgettable impressions.

The museum’s collection contains over three million works of art and monuments of world culture, including paintings, graphic works, sculptures and items of applied art, archaeological finds and coins.

Artifacts from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Byzantium and India, countries of the Middle and Far East, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome are displayed in the more than 1000 rooms of the museum’s four buildings. 

A special collection of Western European Art, one of the best permanent exhibitions in the world, numbering about 600,000 exhibits, occupies 120 museum rooms. This collection reflects all stages of Western European Art development — from the Middle Ages to our time. The collection features works by prominent artists from England, Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy, Flanders, France and other countries of Western Europe.

In addition to the art collections, you will see the interiors of the museum buildings. First and foremost, it is the Winter Palace, the former residence of Russian emperors, constructed for Catherine II, the founder of the Hermitage museum.

It is impossible to describe the wealth, beauty and splendor of the Hermitage well enough — you need to see it with your own eyes.