The State Hermitage Museum is the second largest art museum in the world and one of the main tourist attractions in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Located between Neva River and Palace Square it is comprised of several historical buildings, the main of which is the Winter Palace.
The Hermitage was found in 1764 by Catherine the Great as a court museum. It adjoined the Winter Palace and served as a private gallery for the art amassed by the Empress. Under Nicholas I the Hermitage was reconstructed (1840–52), and it was opened to the public in 1852.
The collection of the State Hermitage museum includes more than three million works of stunning art and artifacts dating from the Stone Age to the present.
Among them is one of the world’s richest collections of western European painting since the Middle Ages, including many masterpieces by Renaissance Italian and Baroque Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, Russian and Asian art.
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