The State Russian Museum located in the heart of St.Petersburg is the world's largest museum of Russian art. The Museum today is a unique depository of artistic treasures, a leading restoration center, an authoritative institute of academic research, a major educational center and the nucleus of a network of national museums of art.
The Russian Museum collection contains circa 400.000 exhibits. The main complex of museum buildings - the Mikhailovsky Palace and Benois Wing - houses the permanent exhibition of the Russian Museum, tracing the entire history of Russian art from the tenth to the twentieth centuries. The museum collection embraces all forms, genres, schools and movements of art. It reflects virtually every form and genre of art in Russia, including a unique collection of Old Russian icons, sculptures and paintings.
The State Russian museum in St. Petersburg is a treasure-house of world importance, where all the wealth and variety of Russian figurative art is superbly represented.
Open: Wed-Mon 10.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
Location: 4, Inzhenernaya Ul.
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