The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg is home to some of the world's most valued treasures—as well as about 70 cats. This photo taken on October 14, 2015 shows a cat in front of the State ...

As Russia's destruction of Ukraine intensifies, the response of the international arts community ranges from outrage to silence. In a statement on Ukrinform, Ukraine's national news agency, leading ...

Members of the National Guard will be assigned to protect the museum. The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Photo by Ксения Брагинская, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY ...

Joy arrived in two forms at the 250th anniversary celebration this past December of the Hermitage State Museum in St. Petersburg: a gift from Russian president Vladimir Putin and an announcement of ...

Canada has included Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, on its list of Russian cultural figures sanctioned for supporting the invasion of Ukraine. Other than ...

Russia’s State Hermitage Museum—cut off from its former Western museum partners since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022—has signed a wide-ranging cooperation agreement with Iran’s Cultural Heritage and ...

With exhibitions spanning nearly 720,000 square feet, Russia’s State Hermitage Museum is home to one of the largest known art ...

In March of 2022, the Hermitage Amsterdam, a Dutch museum operating as the largest outpost of the State Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg, cut ties with its Russian partner. Now the museum is ...

The first retrospective exhibition of her work in Russia, Zaha Hadid at The State Hermitage Museum provides unprecedented insight into the work of Zaha Hadid in a mid-career retrospective highlighting ...

SAINT-PETERSBURG, November 8. /TASS/. The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg now welcomes 4.5 million visitors per year, Hermitage Director General Mikhail Piotrovsky told TASS. The number of ...