Hermitage Museum facts for kids
The Hermitage Museum (Эрмитаж) in St. Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest and oldest art galleries and museums of human history and culture in the world. The vast Hermitage collections are displayed in six buildings, founded by Catherine II of Russia in 1764 and opened in public since 1852. The main building is the Winter Palace. This was the official residence of the Russian Tsars.
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Collections
Strong points of the Hermitage collection of Western art include Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Poussin, Claude Lorraine, Watteau, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Canova, Rodin, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Picasso, and Matisse. There are several more collections. Among the collections are the Russian imperial regalia, an assortment of Faberge jewellery, and the largest existing collection of ancient gold from Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
Cats
A population of cats lives on the museum grounds. They are named the Hermitage cats. They are an added attraction for tourists.
Images for kids
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Garden at Bordighera, Impression of Morning, 1884, Claude Monet
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One of the Hermitage cats
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Ancient Near East: Urartu deity (7th–5th century BC)
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Ancient Steppes: Pazyryk horseman (3rd century BC)
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Hellenistic: Gonzaga Cameo (3rd century BC)
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Ancient Roman: Bust of Lucius Verus (160–170)
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Indian: statue of Buddha (2nd–3rd century)
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Gothic: Anjou Legendarium (1330)
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Early Renaissance: Madonna Litta by Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1490)
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High Renaissance: Penitent Magdalene by Titian (1565)
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Italian Baroque: The Lute Player by Caravaggio (1596)
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Spanish Baroque: The Lunch by Diego Velázquez (1617)
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Flemish Baroque: Self-Portrait by Anthony van Dyck (1622–1623)
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Classicism: Tancred and Herminia by Nicolas Poussin (1649)
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English: Woman in Blue by Thomas Gainsborough (c. 1770s)
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Rococo: The Stolen Kiss by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (c. 1780)
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Romanticism: Portrait of Antonia Zarate by Francisco Goya (1810)
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Persian: Portrait of Fath Ali Shah (1813–1814)
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Impressionism: Woman in the Garden by Claude Monet (1867)
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Post-Impressionism: White House at Night by Vincent van Gogh (1890)
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Post-Impressionism: The Overture to Tannhauser: The Artist's Mother and Sister by Paul Cézanne (1868)
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Picasso's Rose Period: Femme au café (Absinthe Drinker) by Pablo Picasso (1901–02)
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Proto-Cubism: Dryad, by Pablo Picasso (1908)
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Maratha India: A Maratha Armor and Helmet
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Abstract: Composition VI by Wassily Kandinsky (1913)
See also
In Spanish: Museo del Hermitage para niños