Official names
Federal Cultural Institution "The State Hermitage"
The State Hermitage

Legal address
Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya, 34
190000 St Petersburg, Russia

Director
Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky

About the collection
The collection contains around 3 million exhibit items, including:
paintings
16,783
works of graphic art
621,274
sculptures
12,556
works of applied art
298,775
archeological monuments
734,400
numismatics
1,125,323
other exhibit items
144,185

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

Museum of Porcelain
Prospekt Obukhovskoi Oborony, 151

Storage Facility of the State Hermitage in Staraya Derevnya
Zausadebnaya Street, 37A

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