Catherine the Great founded the Hermitage Museum in 1764 as a place to house her private art collection. The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the ...

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Famous art collectors Calouste Gulbenkian and Andrew Mellon were the primary buyers. Hermitage representatives earlier said that the museum lost 50,000 objects between the first sales and up until ...

Founded by the Ladies’ Hermitage Association (now named the Andrew Jackson Foundation), the museum boasts one of the most complete collections of the 7th president’s possessions. Between 1989 ...

The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg now welcomes 4. ... We’ve discussed it with the Louvre and the National gallery of Art in Washington," Piotrovsky noted. How many people can the ...

After battling the crowds at the Hermitage and taking in countless masterpieces at the Russian Museum, you're going to need a place to unwind. So why not go to the same spot Peter the Great used ...

Sarasota Art Museum is all about contemporary art. Some of its shows are curated from completed works, like the recent “Impact: Contemporary Artists at the Hermitage Artist Retreat.” ...

St. Petersburg The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, is a palace turned museum known for its lavish ...