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St Petersburg Sights

State Hermitage Museum

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Good for: history, grandeur, art, price, students

  • Address
    • Dvortsovaya nab 34
  • Website
  • Phone
    • 812 571 3420
  • Price
    • adult/student/child R350/free/free
  • Hours
    • 10.30am-6pm Tue-Sat & 10.30am-5pm Sun

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Lonely Planet review for State Hermitage Museum

There are art galleries, there are museums, there are the great museums of the world and then there is the Hermitage. An unrivalled collection of art treasures housed in the magnificent palace from which the Romanov tsars ruled the Russian Empire, the State Hermitage will inevitably be the focus of any first visit to St Petersburg, and rightly so. At the information kiosk of the State Hermitage Museum you can pick up a free colour map of the museum, available in most European languages. Immediately after ticket inspection you can hire an audio guide (R250) with recorded tours in English, German, French, Italian or Russian. Groups enter from the river side of the Winter Palace.

 

Traveller reviews for State Hermitage Museum (3)

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    “The Majestic Hermitage” review excursion for free!

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    “The Majestic Hermitage” review excursion around the main museum of the country for free with the Guest Card. You have a chance to visit one of the best museums of the world – the State Hermitage.

    The excursion introduces the history of the museum and its buildings to You, and lets You see the staterooms of the Winter Palace, Pavilion hall of the Small Hermitage and the famous Peacock Clock. Outstanding works of the greatest masters of different art schools of Western Europe are presented in the picture gallery. Collections of the monuments of Ancient Greece and Rome familiarize You with art of the Ancient World. Masterpieces of painting and sculpture are supplemented with the brilliant collection of applied art – carpets, furniture, silver, glassware, porcelain, arms, and armour.

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    Truly marvellous museum

    irene_adler recommends this,

    The Hermitage is a must-see for any first time visitor to St Petersburg and like the Louvre in Paris, the collection is so large that there is plenty to enchant returning guests.

    If you've been impressed by the museum, or are looking to get a sense of it before you go, you might want to consider watching Sokurov's 2002 film Russian Ark, which was filmed in the museum in a single take (96 minutes) throughout the various rooms of the Hermitage.

    I was happily surprised that the museum is free for students.

    Good for: history, grandeur, art, price, students

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    You HAVE to go to this museum - one for the museum freaks

    katmar33 recommends this,

    I loved the Hermitage. Just as well, as I planned my whole trip around visiting.
    So clearly, I am a museum freak - so this post is for those of similar bent.

    You name it in the art world, one or more fine examples are here (well if you consider "modern" art to be the Impressionists era...). Dutch masters, fine crafts, Matisse, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Renoir. You get the drift. Sublime. Spend 2 days. I spent one day from dawn till dusk.

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