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 ...

Catherine the Great founded the Hermitage Museum in 1764 as a place to house her private art collection. The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the ...

The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, is seeking the early return several key loans to museums in Milan and Rome. The news, which comes as the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Despite the Russian state maintaining a mostly unfriendly stance on cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), a major state-backed museum is benefiting from the industry by raising hundreds of thousands of ...

Dimitri Ozerkov, the head of the contemporary art department at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, has resigned due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ozerkov tells The Art Newspaper that ...

There was the 18th-century "Portrait of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich" and a quiet discussion about the Russian czar's life. There was an enthusiastic docent and students with questions. It was a beautiful ...

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 ...