The State Hermitage Museum: Information

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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

Visitors. 2011

Total	2 879 686
including:
Foreign visitors	918 273
Russian visitors	839 381
Internet tickets sold	22 208
Free tickets	1 018 737
Travel agency guides	81 087

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