Introduction to the Hermitage Collection: The Hermitage has a vast collection, with 2.7 million pieces of various cultural relics. Among them, there are about 15,000 paintings, 12,000 sculptures, about 620,000 prints and sketches, about 600,000 unearthed cultural relics, about 260,000 pieces of practical art, and about 1 million coins and medals. The main collections include rare treasures from Russia and other countries, ancient Greek and Roman sculptures, Western European medieval to modern sculptures and paintings: Scythian artworks, Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings. Among them, the ancient Roman statue "Venus of Tavrica", Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Madonna of Benoia", and Rembrandt's painting "The Prodigal Son" are the most famous.
The museum displays seven parts: primitive cultural history, ancient Greek and Roman culture and art, oriental national culture and art, Russian culture, Western European art history, coins, and crafts. Exhibits are displayed in more than 350 exhibition halls in order of region and time. With a total length of 30 kilometers, the exhibition line is known as the longest art gallery in the world.
350 exhibition halls display collections that account for 5% of all the Hermitage treasures. It is said that if you want to visit all the exhibition halls of the Hermitage Museum, the journey will be about 22 kilometers long.
The main feature of the museum is the history of Western European art. The artworks are all original, including Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Verazic, El Greco, Merillo, Rembolo, and Ruben. Rare masterpieces by Alexander the Great, Van Dyck, Poussin and other masters of the past, as well as marble statues carved in the style of Michelangelo, Carois, Falcone and Udon.
The third floor of the Hermitage is home to one of the best exhibitions in the world of works from the imperialist period and other outstanding art masters of the early twentieth century: among them Monet, Lerra, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gogh Geng, Matisse, Picasso, etc.