The Hermitage Museum guided tour (Winter Palace)
The Hermitage is the most visited museum in Saint Petersburg. It is the absolute leader in terms of the number of visitors (3 million per year), and in terms of the size of the exhibition, comparable with the largest museums in Europe.
The exhibitions in the Winter Palace are so large that it is possible to keep coming here for far more than just one week.
In the Hermitage you can find the masterpieces of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Rembrandt, Titian, van Dyck, Rubens, and Caravaggio. Nonetheless, there are rooms with applied arts, primitive art, objects of antiquity, and more.
We usually focus our attention on the paintings; this rich collection outdoes a lot of other European museums.
Our tour option of a general overview of the Hermitage is calculated to last 3-4 hours, but it can be adjusted in accordance with your personal preferences. For example, if you are a big art enthusiast, we can either spend a full day (8 hours with a lunch break) in the Hermitage, or come back to the museum several times (4 hours on the first day + 4 hours on the second day, etc).
It is also important to underline that we only use professional skip-the-line tickets to enter this museum, so with our guide you will never spend several hours waiting in line.
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Hello, I am planning a trip to St Petersburg in the beggining of January 2024. I would like to know in the Hermitage Museum will be open for tourists on 1st or 2nd of January?
For the moment there was no official communication from the Hermitage Museum concerning the days off in January 2024. As we have winter holidays normally all museums are closed on 1st of January.
In January 2023 Hermitage was closed the 1st and the 2nd.
It seems that this time (in 2024) it will be opened from the 2nd of Jan. But it s better to follow the official news from the Museum.