The Hermitage is a Museum of fine and decorative arts, located in the complex of the Winter Palace in the center of St. Petersburg. One of the largest and most significant art and cultural and historical museums in the world.The modern state Hermitage Museum is a complex Museum complex. The main exhibition part of the Museum occupies five buildings located along the embankment of the Neva river, the main of which is considered to be the Winter Palace, the Museum also owns the Eastern wing Of the General staff on Palace square, Menshikov Palace on the other side of the Neva, the storage in the Old Village and other buildings [Փ]. The Museum's collection includes about three million works of art and monuments of world culture, from the stone age to the present centurу
