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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

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