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 ...

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 discovery of a Scythian boot provides insight into the craftsmanship and daily life of the ancient Scythian nomads.

TASS/. The State Hermitage Museum has said that German vocalist Till Lindemann has in violation of a binding contact misused its name and images of exhibits from its collection by issuing a series ...

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.