If you want to become better acquainted with the State Hermitage Museum,with the history of its establishment and learn more about the masterpieces of the collection, we offer special programmes which are exactly what you need. In a relaxed, lively atmosphere our highly professional research staff will acquaint you with the museum. Their entertaining stories will interest both art connoisseurs as well as those who are just beginning to enter this captivating world. Carefully thought out and organised programmes which take into account all of your wishes will make your journey into the world of art unforgettable.

We offer the following special programmes:
One day at the State Hermitage Museum
Option 1
General excursion
Treasure Gallery: Gold Rooms
Option 2
General Excursion
Winter Palace – Residence of the Russian Tsars

Two days in the State Hermitage Museum
Option 1
General Excursion
Lunch (if desired)
Treasure Gallery: Gold Rooms
Visit to reserves of the restoration laboratory (by choice)
Option 2
General Excursion
Russian decorated interiors 17th-19th centuries
Russian applied art 17th-19th centuries
Visit to reserves of the restoration laboratory (by choice)
The Great Silk Way and the World Famous Collections of the State Hermitage Museum
General Excursion
Collection of Chinese Art
Treasure Gallery: Gold Rooms
Pazyryk Collection
White Nights in St. Petersburg
General Excursion
The Winter Palace of Peter the Great
The Hermitage of Catherine the Great (with a demonstration of the Peacock Clock and a concert of classical music)

We Sketch with the Hermitage
(Programme lasts 3 days)
General Excursion
Two thematic excursions (by choice)
Master class in the museum halls (class run by a museum artist-restorer)
Lunch in the Hermitage restaurant (as desired)
Journey with the Hermitage
Option 1
Hermitage-London
Option 2
The Hermitage on the Amstel River
Option 3
Savonlinna Opera Festival
It is possible to organise programmes for individual orders
White Days
Programme for the development of St. Petersburg as a tourist centre during the winter time, organised together with the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, Russian Museum and leading hotels in the city (Grand Hotel Europe, Corinthia Nevskij Palace, Radisson SAS Royal, Astoria and Angleterre)

Day 1
Lecture "The State Hermitage Museum: The history of the building and the collection " (held in the hotel)
Day 2
Excursion “Winter Palace – the Residence of the Russian Tsars "
Day 3
Excursion "Old Masters". Visit of the Art restoration and storage centre in Staraya Derevnya
Visit of the restoration laboratory
Excursion "Impressionists and Post-impressionists"
Musical Hermitage
Option 1 (Orchestra of the StateHermitageMuseum)
General Excursion
Glass of champagne at the entrance

Concert of classical music (Pavilion Hall, Big Italian Skylight room)
Option 2 (ensemble of soloists from the Orchestra of the StateHermitageMuseum)
General Excursion
Glass of champagne at the entrance
Concert of classical music (Pavilion Hall, Big Italian Skylight room)
Ballet Programme
General Excursion
Glass of champagne in the foyer
Ballet performance in the Hermitage Theatre
Clocks and Clock mechanisms
General Excursion
Visit the scientific restoration laboratory for watches and musical mechanisms
Meeting with the restorer (lecture and discussion)
Art Restoration and Storage Centre of the State Hermitage Museum in Staraya Derevnya
General Excursion
Lecture: Furniture Styles
Discussion with the scientific staff of the Art Restoration and Storage Centre
Art Testing
Art testing
Thematic classes
Repeat testing
Individual recommendations (awarding of certificates)
Imperial Porcelain Factory
General Excursion of the Museum of the Porcelain Factory
Excursion of the Gallery of Contemporary Porcelain Art
Master class on hand painting porcelain
Visit of the factory’s shop


The following subjects can be included in the special programmes:

• Ancient art in the State Hermitage Collection
• Treasures of the Scythian Barrows in the northern Black Sea littoral and Altai
• Byzantine Antiquities in the State Hermitage Museum
• Treasures of the Sassanids
• Masterpieces of the Renaissance
• Paintings of the Flemish and Dutch Masters
• Rembrandt and his school
• French painting at the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century
• Collection of Western European Bronzes
• Western European porcelain from the 18th century
• Masterpieces of art glass
• Tapestries in the State Hermitage Museum’s Collection
• Embroidery and gold threads in the State Hermitage Museum’s Collection
• Sculptures and minor plastics
• Carved bone in the State Hermitage Museum’s Collection
• Russian Icons
• Artistic decorations in Russian interiors
• Russian porcelain of the 18th-20th centuries.
• Court, military and traditional costumes in Russia
• Collection of Western European, Eastern and Russian weapons in the Arsenal of the State Hermitage Museum
• Libraries of the Winter Palace and State Hermitage Museum
• Rarities of the Hermitage Library
• Guards’ Museum
• Exposition of the General Staff Building

Ordering Special Programmes
Special programmes can only be organised by special order, not less than 15 days before the excursion.
The programmes White Nights in St. Petersburg, White Days, Art Testing, Imperial Porcelain Factory,  and also visiting the restoration laboratories must be ordered no less than 4 weeks in advance, the excursion Journey with the Hermitage must be ordered from 4-8 weeks in advance.