A short guide about Culinary Food / Wine travel to Hermitage Museum
Visit the beautiful State Hermitage Museum, the world's second largest - with a collection of over 3 million exhibits; it is one of the finest art museums in the world, besides the Louvre in France which is bigger. Situated in the city centre of St Petersburg it has become one of the country’s most popular tourist attractions, and it is difficult not to fall in love with the ‘winter palace’; painted in the colourful green and white combination of the Russian baroque style.
The museum is situated on Dvortsovaya Embankment just a few metres away from the Dvortsovaya bridge - one of the oldest and most beautiful bridges in St Petersburg and comprises five buildings; The Winter Palace, the Small Hermitage, the Old Hermitage, the Hermitage Theatre and the New Hermitage, and a sixth one recently built.
All these buildings are interconnected by passages in the form of arches, covered bridges and a hanging garden. The museum opened to the public at the end of the 19th century and comprises of eight departments which include: more than three million items from paintings, graphic arts, sculptures, applied art, coins, and archaeological discoveries.
Tourabout has a whole range of Escorted Tours to St Petersburg where you can visit the State Hermitage Museum – So have a little look at our supplier’s tours – you just never know – one day you too could be gazing at the great halls of the Winter Palace that was once the main residence of the Russian Tsars. It was here that Catherine the Great started her famed art collection in 1764 - in her lifetime - she acquired 4,000 paintings from the old masters, 38,000 books, 10,000 engraved gems, 10,000 drawings, 16,000 coins and medals, as well as ‘natural history’ collection filling two galleries.