PETERSBURG, Russia <br/> July 30, 2010 -- The standard line about the Hermitage Museum on the banks of St. Petersburg 's Neva River is that you can spend days wandering its rooms and only see a ...

For museum professionals around the world, one of the most interesting of the world’s museums is St. Petersburg’s Hermitage museum, once the winter retreat of Czarina Catherine the Great.

The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg houses more than three million works of art, and stands as a powerful symbol of this country’s imperial past. Russia’s royal families lived here ...

A museum worker, e Museum supervisors, Tatyana Danilova, feeds the museum mice hunters, in St. Petersburg. Cats have been part of the Hermitage's security system since its founding days. Picture: AP ...

By Cai Pigliucci, CNN While you’re strolling the grand halls of the State Hermitage Museum, in St. Petersburg, Russia, you might hear the faint sound of a meow coming from pipes below.

Director of The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Dr. Mikhail Piotrovsky gives his insider guide to what is commonly considered Russia's best museum. Interview by Lara Prendergast 15 March ...

The Amsterdam Hermitage, a museum of Russian art in Amsterdam that assembled its collection in cooperation with the famed State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, said on Thursday it was ...

Hermitage Day was held in March at the National Museum in Muscat, where Piotrovsky, who is dean of St Petersburg University’s Faculty of Oriental Studies, also gave a talk in Arabic on “the ...

The current director of the Hermitage Museum, Mikhail Piotrovsky, knows every inch of the palace. His father was the director for nearly 40 years; Piotrovsky grew up wandering the halls.