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 2,967,334 items, including:
paintings
16,842
works of graphic art
622,049
sculptures
12,620
works of applied art
300,981
archejlogical objects
737,772
numismatics
1,131,606
other exhibit items
145,464

6,816 items enlarged the State Hermitage collection in 2009 as donations, acquisitions via the New Acquisition Department, receipts from archeological expeditions.

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

The Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory
Prospekt Obukhovskoi Oborony, 151

The Staraya Derevnya Restoration and Storage Centre
Zausadebnaya Street, 37A

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