Presentation about

‘’State Hermitage’’

Elaborated by Andrei Liboni

 Content
1.Summary about Hermitage Museum.
2.What's in the Hermitage Museum?
3.Top 10 things to see in The Hermitage Collection.
4.Interesting facts about Hermitage museum.
5.Why is the Hermitage famous?
 Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage Museum is a museum of art and culture in Saint
Petersburg, Russia . The second-largest art museum in the world, it
was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an
impressive collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann
Ernst Gotzkowsky. The word derives from Old French hermit, ermit
"hermit, recluse", from Late Latin eremita, from Greek eremites,
literally "people who live alone", which is in turn derived from ἐρημός
(erēmos), "desert".
What's in the Hermitage Museum?
• The Main Museum Complex.
• The General Staff Building.
• The Menshikov Palace.
• The Winter Palace of Peter the Great.
• The Museum of the Imperial Porcelain
Factory.
• The Staraya Derevnya Restoration and Storage
Centre.
TOP 10 THINGS TO SEE IN THE HERMITAGE COLLECTION
Leonardo Da Vinci Room
• Malachite Room
• Kolyvan Vase
• Main Staircase
• Peacock Clock
• Knight's Hall
• Treasure Gallery
• Statues Of Atlantes
• Raphael's Madonna Conestabile
• Michelangelo's Crouching Boy Treasure Gallery
• Leonardo Da Vinci Room

Peacock Clock
Interesting facts about Hermitage museum
1. The palace was constructed for Empress Elizabeth, the daughter of Peter the
Great. Sadly, the empress died before the palace was completed.
2. In 1837 a fire destroyed most of the rooms of the Winter Palace and ruined
the exterior. The fire started due to the construction mistakes in the Small
Throne room. It was later re-built.
3. The Red Army in Germany looted paintings and hid them in the State
Hermitage building in the year 1945. They were first exhibited as ‘Hidden
Treasures Revealed’.
4. It is believed that if spend a minute looking at each painting or other
masterpieces on display in the Hermitage, you would require 11 years to see
them all.
 Why is the Hermitage famous?
• Before the Hermitage became one of the world's best
museums, it was the personal collection of Empress
Catherine the Great. Only in 1852 did the growing art
collection open to the public.
• The huge museum consists of over 3 million items, of which
only about five percent are exhibited in 350 halls.
• The Hermitage is full of ghosts, such as that of Peter the
Great and the last Romanov family. Some are quite unusual
for Russia. For example, it’s said that during a full moon a
blood pool appears at the knees of the sitting statue of the
ancient Egyptian goddess Sekhmet.
Thank you for your attention!