Museums

The Hermitage Museum

The State Hermitage museum is one of the oldest and largest museums in the world. The museum is located in 5 historical buildings of St.Petersburg, including the Winter Palace - the former residence of Russian tsars. The buildings of the museum, by themselves, are architectural chef d'oeuvres. The collections of the Hermitage number over 3 million items from prehistoric to modern times. Magnificent works of art embracing prehistoric culture, Egyptian art, the art of Antiquity, Scythian gold, and great collections of Western-European paintings and sculptures are displayed in 400 halls of the museum. The museum recently acquired Soviet painter Kazimir Malevich's famous black square painting for $1 million. The tour to the Hermitage is included into the program, but it’s impossible to cover everything in three hours. Being true art connoisseurs Anastasia web tour customers often go there again with a Russian woman as a guide.

Address: 191065, Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya 34

Metro: Nevsky Prospekt/Gostiny Dvor

Telephone +7 (812) 311-3465, +7 (812) 219-8625

Open: Tuesday to Saturday 10:30am to 6pm
Sundays and national holidays 10:30am to 5pm
Ticket offices close one hour before the museum closes
N.B.! The Hermitage is closed on Mondays

The Russian Museum - Founded in 1898, this is the largest and most complete museum of Russian art. The museum's collection of art is in the Mikhailovsky Palace , which was built by famous Russian architect Carl Rossi from 1819-25. It houses works by great Russian artists including renowned painters Pavel Fedotov, Isaac Levitan, Orest Kiprensky, Ilya Repin and many others.

It has several branches which are within short walking distance of each other and the city's central tourist attractions.

They are: The Mikhailovsky (St Michael's) Castle ( Address: Sadovaya Ulitsa 2, Metro: Nevsky Prospekt/Gostiny Dvor)

The Marble Palace ( Address: Milionnaya Ulitsa 5/1 Metro: Nevsky Prospekt)

The Stroganov Palace ( Address: Nevsky Prospekt 17 Metro: Nevsky Prospekt)

All of the Russian Museum are open Wednesday to Monday, 10 am to 6 pm (last admission at 5 pm ) N.B.! All four branches of the State Russian Museum are closed on Tuesdays.