The three million works of art at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, are protected from rats and mice by a small army of about 65 cats rescued from the streets. The museum, which is one ...
Members of the National Guard will be assigned to protect the museum. The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Photo by Ксения Брагинская, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY ...
A 45-year-old entrepreneur from the Leningrad region climbed onto the Great Imperial Throne at the Hermitage on May 17, sat ...
On May 18, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director General of the Hermitage, commented on a recent incident with a visitor when he ...
Authorities evacuated the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg on Thursday after members of its staff received an anonymous bomb threat over email. A museum spokeswoman tells artnet News that ...
The Russian Embassy in Seoul is holding an immersive digital exhibition of the Hermitage Museum at the Oil Tank Culture Park, ...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An Amsterdam museum that severed ties with St. Petersburg's Hermitage collection after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine last year has been renamed and on Monday announced ...
Alexander Butyagin, a St. Petersburg archaeologist and Hermitage Museum researcher, was arrested in Warsaw in late 2025.
As Russia's destruction of Ukraine intensifies, the response of the international arts community ranges from outrage to silence. In a statement on Ukrinform, Ukraine's national news agency, leading ...
The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg is home to some of the world's most valued treasures—as well as about 70 cats. This photo taken on October 14, 2015 shows a cat in front of the State ...