Action Of The State Hermitage

Any visitor of the Northern capital, and especially for a first visit, definitely plan to visit one of the main museums of St. Petersburg - the Hermitage. Celebrating its 250th anniversary, one of the world's museums and one of the main museums of Russia prepared for its visitors a pleasant surprise in the form of free access to any building in the Museum complex every first Thursday of each month, all of 2016.

you can See without a doubt there is something. If this is important to consider that if you want to walk through the halls and listen to the tour guide, you still have to pay for an excursion in any case.

For our guests who first visited Saint Petersburg in the first place recommended to visit the permanent exhibitions, such as the following:

the
• the Gallery of portraits of the Romanovs

on the Ancient monuments of culture and art of Eurasia the

• Painting of the Netherlands
the
• Painting Spain
the
• Painting of Flanders
the
• Halls of the Neva enfilade of the ceremonial, the malachite room, the rotunda
the
• Western European art weapons XV-XVII centuries.
the
• Art of England
the
• the Art of Armenia and Georgia
the
• the Art of the Venetian school of the Renaissance
the
• the Art of Germany XV–XVIII centuries.
the
• the Art of Ancient Rome
the
• the Art of Ancient Greece
the
• the Art of Ancient Italy
the
• Art of India I–XIX centuries.
the
• Italian Art of the XVI–XVIII centuries.
the
• the art of the Italian Renaissance of the XIII–XVI centuries.
the
• the art of the Netherlands
the
• the Art of medieval Dagestan
the
• French art of the XV–XVIII centuries.
the
• the Art of the Hellenistic era
the
• Japanese Art
the
• Culture of antique towns of the Northern black sea coast
the
• Culture of the Near East in ancient times
the
• the Culture of Ancient Egypt
the
• Culture of the Golden Horde
the
• Culture and art of pre-Islamic Central Asia
the
• Culture and art of Russia of second half XVIII century
the
• Culture and art of Russia in the first half of the XVIII century.
the
• Culture and art of Central Asia
the
• Culture of the Caucasus. Antiquity and the early middle Ages
the
• Culture of the peoples of South Siberia
the
• the culture of the Scythians (VII-II centuries BC.
the
• of the Loggia of Raphael
the
• weapon art in the Middle East XV–XIX centuries.
the
• state rooms of the Winter Palace
the
• Empress Maria Alexandrovna in the Winter Palace
the
• Applied art of Western Europe in the XI-XV centuries.
the
• Artistic decoration of the Russian interior of XIX - early XX century.

All of these permanent exhibitions are in the main Museum complex, which is located in the building of the Winter Palace, the Small Hermitage, the Hermitage theatre, New Hermitage and other buildings located in the city center.

Also you can visit the exhibitions that will take place during your visit to SPb. About going at this time exhibitions check it in advance.

the Museum is divided into Museum complexes, which include certain buildings.

the State Hermitage Museum is divided into the following six Museum complex:

the Main Museum complex the

• Main headquarters

Menshikov Palace the

• Winter Palace of Peter I
the
• Museum of the Imperial porcelain factory
the
• Restoration and storage centre "Old village"

Respectively, in each Museum complex consists of several buildings in which the treasures are stored. Watch the main buildings of the Museum are:

the
• Large (Old) Hermitage
the
• General staff Building
the
• Menshikov Palace
the
• Winter Palace
the
• Small Hermitage
the
• Hermitage Museum
the
• Hermitage theatre
the
• Dom Replacement
the
• the building of the Museum of the Imperial porcelain factory (PR. Obukhov defense, d. 151)
the
• Building Restoration and storage centre "Old village" (Zausadebnaya street, D. 37A)

by the Way, free access does not work only the center "Old village" because access to it is solely a tour and excursion service on the first Thursday of each month paid. The rest of the complexes of the Museum will be available for free, including the Menshikov Palace and the Museum of the Imperial porcelain factory, which is located on the Avenue Obukhov defense.

I Should say that the visit to another day for any of the Museum complex of the Hermitage will cost 600 rubles, but the citizens of Russia and Belarus will be 400 rubles. Entrance into separate objects will be 300 rubles. Children and pensioners of the Russian Federation, as well as some other categories of citizens entrance ticket will always be free.

a List of dates that you can visit Hermitage for free complexes in 2016:

If you decide to visit the Hermitage any day You like, recall that the Museum is open all days from 10:30 to 19:00, on Wednesdays and Fridays from 10:30 to 21:00. Every Monday, January 1 and may 9 – the Museum is closed.

Official site: http://hermitagemuseum.org