Hermitage Museum

The State Hermitage Museum is a of art and culture in , 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.
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Also known as: “Bảo tàng Ermitage”, “Bảo tàng Hermitage”, “de Hermitage”, “Državni ermitaž”, “Državni muzej Ermitaž”, “Eremitaashi”, “Eremitaasi”, “Eremitaasin taidemuseo”, “Eremitage Sankt Petersburg”, “Ermitage Museum”, “Ermitaz̆”, “Hermitage Müzesi”, “Hermitage Palace”, “Hermitage Rusland”, “Hermitage Sint Petersburg”, “Hermitage Sint-Petersburg”, “Hermitage St. Petersburg”, “Hermitage St.-Petersburg”, “Kışlık Saray”, “Mirdi an Ermitaj”, “musée de l’Hermitage”, “Musée National de l’Ermitage”, “Museo del Ermitage”, “Museo dell’Ermitage”, “Museo dell’Ermitage di San Pietroburgo”, “Museo dell’Hermitage”, “Museo Hermitage”, “Museu de l’Ermitage”, “Museu de l’Ermitage de Sant Petersburg”, “Museu de l’Hermitage”, “Museu do Ermitage”, “Museu do hermitage”, “Museu Ermitage”, “Museu Estatal Hermitage”, “Muzej Ermitaž”, “Pietro Antonio Rotari”, “Riiklik Ermitaaž”, “Ŝtata Ermitejo”, “State Hermitage”, “State Hermitage Museum”, “State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg”, “Státní Ermitáž”, “The Hermitage”, “The State Hermitage Museum”, “Κρατικό Μουσείο Ερμιτάζ”, “Μουσείο Ερμιτάζ”, “Гос. Эрмитаж”, “Госуда́рственный Эрмита́ж”, “Державний Ермітаж”, “Дзяржаўны Эрмітаж”, “Државни ермитаж”, “Ермитажа”, “Императорский Эрмитаж”, “Імператарскі Эрмітаж”, “Імператорський Ермітаж”, “Музеј Ермитаж”, “ЭРМИТАЖ”, “Эрмитаж Императорский”, “ერმიტაჟის მუზეუმი”, “სახელმწიფო ერმიტაჟი”, “Ազգային Էրմիտաժ”, “Կայսերական Էրմիտաժ”, “ארמיטז‘”, “הרמיטאז‘”, “הרמיטז‘”, “מוזיאון הארמיטאז‘”, “מוזיאון ההרמיטז‘”, “آرمیتاژ”, “آرمیتاژ موزه”, “ارمیتاژ”, “متحف الإرميتاج”, “موزه آرمیتاژ”, “موزهٔ ارمیتاژ”, “موزه هرمیتاژ”, “هرمیتاژ”, “எர்மித்தாஷ் அருங்காட்சியகம்”, “พระราชวังแอร์มิทาช”, “พระราชวังเฮอร์มิทิจ”, “พิพิธภัณฑ์เฮอร์มิทิจ”, “에르미타쉬 미술관”, “에르미타슈”, “에르미타슈 미술관”, “에르미타슈 박물관”, “에르미타시”, “에르미타시 미술관”, “에르미타주”, “에르미타주 미술관”, “에르미타주 박물관”, “에르미타쥬”, “에르미타쥬 미술관”, “예르미타시”, “예르미타시 박물관”, “エルミタージュ劇場”, “エルミタージュ博物館”, “新エルミタージュ宮”, “艾尔米塔什国立美术馆”, “艾爾米塔什國立美術館”, “艾爾米塔什美術館”, and “隱士廬博物館”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: The Church of Our Savior on the Spilled Blood and General Staff Building.

Museum
The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood is a Russian… is situated 1 km east of Hermitage Museum.

Museum
The is an edifice with a 580… is situated 400 metres southeast of Hermitage Museum.

The Bronze Horseman is an of Peter… is situated 760 metres southwest of Hermitage Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint Petersburg and Peter and Paul Fortress.

, known as Petrograd in 1914-1924 and…

Neighborhood
The is the original citadel…

Suburb
Photo: Ninara, CC BY 2.0.
Apraksin Yard is a market and retail block in , , covering 14 hectares.

Hermitage Museum

Latitude
59.94078° or 59° 56′ 27″ north
Longitude
30.31277° or 30° 18′ 46″ east
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
Open location code
9GFGW8R7+84
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Hermitage Museum” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ермитаж”
  • Afrikaans: “Hermitage”
  • Arabic: “متحف أرميتاج”
  • Arabic: “متحف هيرميتاج”
  • Armenian: “Էրմիտաժ”
  • Armenian: “Պետական Էրմիտաժ”
  • Asturian: “Muséu del Hermitage”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ermitaj”
  • Bashkir: “Эрмитаж Дәүләт Музейы”
  • Basque: “Hermitage museoa”
  • Basque: “Hermitage Museoa”
  • Belarusian: “Эрмітаж”
  • Bengali: “হার্মিটেগ জাদুঘর”
  • Bengali: “হার্মিটেজ জাদুঘর”
  • Bosnian: “Ermitaž”
  • Breton: “Mirdi ar Peniti”
  • Bulgarian: “Ермитаж”
  • Catalan: “Hermitage”
  • Chechen: “Эрмитаж”
  • Chinese: “埃尔米塔日博物馆”
  • Chinese: “埃爾米塔日博物館”
  • Chinese: “艾尔米塔什博物馆”
  • Chuvash: “Эрмитаж”
  • Croatian: “Ermitaž”
  • Czech: “Ermitáž”
  • Danish: “Eremitagen”
  • Dutch: “Hermitage”
  • Eastern Mari: “Эрмитаж”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متحف الهيرميتاج”
  • Erzya: “Прявт Эрмитаж”
  • Esperanto: “Ermitejo”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo Ermitejo”
  • Estonian: “Ermitaaž”
  • Extremaduran: “Museu del Hermitage”
  • Finnish: “Eremitaaši”
  • French: “musée de l’Ermitage”
  • French: “Musée de l’Ermitage”
  • Galician: “Ermitage”
  • Galician: “Museo do Hermitage”
  • Georgian: “ერმიტაჟი”
  • German: “Eremitage”
  • Gilaki: “ارميتاژ ٚ مۊزه”
  • Gilaki: “ارميتاژˇ مۊزه”
  • Greek: “Ερμιτάζ”
  • Haitian: “Mize Èmitaj”
  • Hebrew: “ארמיטאז‘”
  • Hebrew: “ארמיטאז’”
  • Hindi: “हर्मिटेज संग्रहालय”
  • Hungarian: “Ermitázs”
  • Indonesian: “Hermitage Museum”
  • Indonesian: “Museum Ermitáž”
  • Italian: “Ermitage”
  • Italian: “Hermitage”
  • Italian: “Palazzo d’Inverno”
  • Japanese: “エルミタージュ美術館”
  • Kazakh: “Érmïtaj”
  • Kazakh: “Эрмитаж”
  • Kazakh: “ەرمىيتاج”
  • Kirghiz: “Эрмитаж”
  • Korean: “에르미타시 박물관”
  • Korean: “예르미타시 미술관”
  • Latin: “Museum Solitarium”
  • Latvian: “Valsts Ermitāža”
  • Ligurian: “Ermitage”
  • Lithuanian: “Ermitažas”
  • Macedonian: “Ермитаж”
  • Malayalam: “ഹെർമിറ്റേജ് മ്യൂസിയം”
  • Manipuri: “ꯔꯁꯤꯌꯥꯒꯤ ꯍꯔꯃꯤꯇꯦꯖ ꯃ꯭ꯌꯨꯖꯤꯌꯝ”
  • Mazanderani: “هرمیتاژ موزه”
  • Mongolian: “эрмитаж”
  • Mongolian: “Эрмитаж”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Eremitasjen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eremitasjen”
  • Norwegian: “Eremitasjen”
  • Ossetian: “Паддзахадон Эрмитаж”
  • Panjabi: “ਦ ਹਰਮੀਟੇਜ”
  • Persian: “موزه ارمیتاژ”
  • Polish: “Ermitaż”
  • Portuguese: “Hermitage”
  • Portuguese: “Museu Hermitage”
  • Romanian: “Muzeul Ermitaj”
  • Russian: “Государственный Эрмитаж”
  • Russian: “Эрмитаж”
  • Scots: “Hermitage Museum”
  • Serbian: “Ermitaž”
  • Serbian: “Ермитаж”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ermitaž”
  • Slovak: “Ermitáž”
  • Slovenian: “Ermitaž”
  • Spanish: “Museo del Hermitage”
  • Swedish: “Eremitaget”
  • Tamil: “ஏர்மிட்டேச் அருங்காட்சியகம்”
  • Tatar: “Эрмитаж музее”
  • Tatar: “Эрмитаж-Казан”
  • Telugu: “స్టేట్ హెర్మిటేజ్ మ్యూజియం”
  • Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์แอร์มิทาช”
  • Turkish: “Ermitaj Müzesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Ермітаж”
  • Uzbek: “Ermitaj”
  • Veps: “Ermitaž”
  • Vietnamese: “Bảo tàng Ermitazh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Museo nga Hermitage”
  • Welsh: “Amgueddfa Hermitage”
  • Western Armenian: “Էրմիթաժ”
  • Wu Chinese: “埃尔米塔日博物馆”
  • Yakut: “Эрмитаж”
  • Yue Chinese: “冬宮博物館”

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