The museum’s origins date back to Russian Empress Catherine the Great, a lover of the arts who wrote plays and children’s literature. In 1764, nearly a century before the State Hermitage’s ...

The Russian Museum boasts the world's largest ... Catherine the Great founded the Hermitage Museum in 1764 as a place to house her private art collection. The main museum complex comprises six ...

"The Hermitage Museum presents a large-scale monographic exhibition of prominent Russian fashion designer Vycheslav Zaitsev for the first time. The exposition includes more than 100 outfits made ...

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 ...

The London institution had a false start as a museum, but is now thriving with its winning combination of hosting temporary ...

Russia’s State Hermitage Museum and UNESCO have inked a memorandum on cooperating to protect items of cultural value in armed conflict zones, in particular, in the Middle East PARIS, October 9.

Russia's Hermitage Museum, the largest art collection in the world, announced recently it will sell several masterpieces, including a work of Leonardo da Vinci, in the form of non-fungible tokens ...

Mikhail Piotrovsky, the director of Russia’s State Hermitage Museum, wants to rebuild Palmyra using artifacts from the museum’s collection.