These visits are intended to provide an initial acquaintance with the museum and its history, with its more famous collections, with the architecture and interior decoration of its splendid halls. The familiarization can be brief - during one visit - or detailed, if you come to the museum several times and choose a topic that interests you.

• Overview of the museum
  
• The Winter Palace of Peter the Great
  
• The Golden Treasure Room (jewelry of the Scythians, Antiquity and the Orient)
  
• Five visits to the museum. 5 tours
  
• The State Hermitage - a treasure house of world art. 9 tours
  
• History of the Hermitage collections
  
• History and architecture of the buildings (visiting the halls)
  
• Tour of the halls displaying art of Italy, Flanders, Holland and Spain
  
• French art through the ages
  
• Russian-French ties in the Hermitage
  
• A Grand Tour through the halls of art from the Orient

Applications are accepted in the Excursion Bureau of the Hermitage
Tel.: 571-84-46
Fax: 312-23-66