Hermitage Museum

 Of six buildings of the main museum complex, five, named the Winter Palace, Small Hermitage, Old Hermitage, New Hermitage and Hermitage Theatre, are 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 first 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.

• 1 Buildings
• 2 Collections
  • 2.1 Egyptian antiquities
  • 2.2 Classical antiquities
  • 2.3 Prehistoric art
  • 2.4 Jewelry and decorative art
  • 2.5 Italian Renaissance
  • 2.6 Italian and Spanish fine art
  • 2.7 Knight's Hall
  • 2.8 Dutch Golden Age and Flemish Baroque
  • 2.9 German, British, Swiss and French fine art
  • 2.10 Russian art
  • 2.11 Neoclassical, Impressionist, and post-Impressionist art
• 3 History
  • 3.1 Origins: Catherine's collection
  • 3.2 Expansion in the 19th century
  • 3.3 After the October Revolution
  • 3.4 The Hermitage since 1991
• 4 Dependencies
  • 4.1 Hermitage Amsterdam
  • 4.2 Hermitage-Kazan Exhibition Center
  • 4.3 Ermitage Italia, Ferrara
  • 4.4 Hermitage-Vyborg Center
  • 4.5 Hermitage Barcelona
  • 4.6 Hermitage Exhibition Center, Vladivostok
  • 4.7 Hermitage-Siberia, Omsk
  • 4.8 Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Vilnius
  • 4.9 Former dependencies
• 5 Management
  • 5.1 Hermitage directors
  • 5.2 Volunteer service
  • 5.3 Cats
• 6 In popular culture
  • 6.1 Films
  • 6.2 Television
  • 6.3 Literature
  • 6.4 Games
• 7 Gallery
• 8 See also
• 9 Notes
• 10 References
• 11 External links