Today, December 7, is the founding day of the Hermitage Museum
Some information about the Hermitage:
The Hermitage, which occupies a special place among the most famous and largest museums in the world, was opened on December 1764, 7 in the city of Saint Petersburg, on the banks of the Neva River.
Paintings by famous artists and valuable exhibits are collected here. Since there are too many of them, it will not be enough to visit the museum again and again to see all the exhibits.
The Hermitage is one of the twenty most famous and most visited museums in the world.
The Hermitage Museum was founded by Catherine II.
The private collection belonging to the emperor was placed in the Winter Palace, and it was here that the Hermitage was named.
Catherine II liked to look at the pictures that belonged to her alone. The name of the museum also means "secluded place" when translated from French. Later, they began to call the entire museum complex the Hermitage.
The Winter Palace, where the Hermitage is located, served as a residence for Russian emperors for many years.
How much time is needed to see all the exhibits in the Hermitage is calculated. If a visitor spends 8 hours a day in the museum, spending one minute to look at each exhibit, it will take him 11 years to go around the museum completely.
More than 3 works of art are stored in the Hermitage.
The sculptures placed on the roof of the Hermitage building were purposely installed to hide the pipes. The total number of sculptures on the roof is 176.
There are too many cats living in the Hermitage building. They are officially allowed to live in the building. Cats help keep mice and rats from multiplying in the museum. Each cat living in the Hermitage has its own passport and medical card.
24 paintings by Rembrandt are stored in the Hermitage. This is the largest collection of his paintings, excluding the country where the artist was born - the Netherlands.
The total length of exhibition halls in the Hermitage is 24 kilometers. The building consists of 350 separate halls.
Until the middle of the 19th century, ordinary people could not enter the Hermitage. Even Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin could not enter the building. Later, with the efforts of one of his friends and "acquaintance" connections, he managed to get into the museum.
The Hermitage is the largest picture gallery in the world. More than 5 million people visit this place every year.
