Hermitage Museum

The State Hermitage Museum is the largest art museum in the world by gallery space.

The exhibitions of the Hermitage include over 3 million exhibits which represent Antiquity, Western Europe, Middle East, Russia and other epochs, countries and regions. The museum was founded in 1764, when Catherine the Great purchased a big collection of Western European paintings. Nowadays it consists of five buildings located in the historical center of St. Petersburg on the Neva embankment.