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The State Hermitage Museum is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and holds the largest collection of paintings in the world. It was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired a collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky. The museum celebrates the anniversary of its founding each year on 7 December, Saint Catherine's Day. It has been open to the public since 1852. The Art Newspaper ranked the museum 10th in their list of the most visited art museums, with 2,812,913 visitors in 2022.
Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three million items (the numismatic collection accounting for about one-third of them). The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors. Apart from them, the Menshikov Palace, Museum of Porcelain, Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya, and the eastern wing of the General Staff Building are also part of the museum. The museum has several exhibition centers abroad. The Hermitage is a federal state property. Since July 1992, the director of the museum has been Mikhail Piotrovsky.
Of the six buildings in the main museum complex, five—namely the Winter Palace, Small Hermitage, Old Hermitage, New Hermitage, and Hermitage Theatre—are all open to the public. The entrance ticket for foreign tourists costs more than the fee paid by citizens of Russia and Belarus. However, entrance is free of charge the third Thursday of every month for all visitors, and free daily for students and children. The museum is closed on Mondays. The entrance for individual visitors is located in the Winter Palace, accessible from the Courtyard.

Some features:
Ancient Egyptian: Limestone stele of a chief potter (18th century BC)
Ancient Near East: Urartu deity (7th–5th century BC)
Ancient Greek: Red-figure vase (5th century BC)
Ancient Steppes: Pazyryk horseman (3rd century BC)
Hellenistic: Gonzaga Cameo (3rd century BC)
Classical Near East: Palmyra Tariff (2nd century CE)
Ancient Roman: Bust of Lucius Verus (160–170)
Ancient Roman: Statue of Jupiter (1st century AD.)
Indian: statue of Buddha (2nd–3rd century)
Gothic: Anjou Legendarium (1330)
Early Renaissance: Madonna and Child with St Dominic and St Thomas Aquinas by Fra Angelico (c. 1435)
Early Renaissance: Madonna Litta by Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1490)
High Renaissance: Danaë by Titian (1553–1554)
High Renaissance: Portrait of a Lady by Correggio (c. 1517–c. 1520)
Mannerism: Saint Peter and Saint Paul by El Greco (1592)
Mannerism: Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist by Pontormo (c. 1522–1523)
Italian Baroque: The Lute Player by Caravaggio (1596)
Italian Baroque: The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine by Guercino (1653)
Spanish Baroque: The Lunch by Diego Velázquez (1617)
Spanish Baroque: Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (c. 1665)
Flemish Baroque: Portrait of the Artist with his Family by Jacob Jordaens (1615)
Flemish Baroque: Bacchus by Peter Paul Rubens (1638-1640)
Classicism: Tancred and Herminia by Nicolas Poussin (1649)
Classicism: Coast View with Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl by Claude Lorrain (between 1645 and 1649)
Dutch Baroque: The Descent from the Cross by Rembrandt (1634)
Dutch Baroque: The Return of the Prodigal Son by Rembrandt (1661–1669)
English: Woman in Blue by Thomas Gainsborough (c. 1770s)
English: Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus by Joshua Reynolds (1788)
Rococo: The Stolen Kiss by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (c. 1780)
Rococo: Actors of the Comédie-Française by Antoine Watteau (c. 1711–1718)
Neoclassicism: Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss by Antonio Canova (1800–1803)
Neoclassicism: Sappho and Phaon by Jacques-Louis David (1809)
Romanticism: Portrait of Antonia Zarate by Francisco Goya (1810)
Romanticism: On the Sailing Boat by Caspar David Friedrich (1819)
Impressionism: Woman in the Garden by Claude Monet (1867)
Impressionism: Place de la Concorde by Edgar Degas (1875)
Post-Impressionism: Memory of the Garden at Etten (Ladies of Arles) by Vincent van Gogh (1888)
Post-Impressionism: The Overture to Tannhauser by Paul Cézanne (1868)
Picasso's Rose Period: Femme au café (Absinthe Drinker) by Pablo Picasso (1901–02)
Proto-Cubism: Dryad, by Pablo Picasso (1908)
Fauvism: The Dance by Henri Matisse (1910)
Maratha India: A Maratha Armor and Helmet
Abstract: Composition VI by Wassily Kandinsky (1913)
Persian: Portrait of Fath Ali Shah (1813–1814)