The State Hermitage Museum
View of (from left) the Hermitage Theatre, Old Hermitage, and Small Hermitage
Established	1764; 260 years ago (1764)
Location	34 Palace Embankment, Dvortsovy Municipal Okrug, Central District, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Visitor figures	1,649,443 visitors (2021)
Director	Mikhail Piotrovsky
Public transit access	Admiralteyskaya station
Website	hermitagemuseum.org

The Winter Palace overlooks the Neva River.

The paintings hang amid opulent interior architecture.

The Hermitage Museum (Эрмитаж) in St. Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest and oldest art galleries and museums of human history and culture in the world. The vast Hermitage collections are displayed in six buildings, founded by Catherine II of Russia in 1764 and opened in public since 1852. The main building is the Winter Palace. This was the official residence of the Russian Tsars.