Russian Museums

The State Hermitage Museum, in St. Petersburg, Russia, features galleries of artwork of the Old Masters and a collection of medieval Russian artifacts.

For additional photos from the museum, see Birchbark Letters and Other Artifacts .

The Russian Museum collection contains 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.

For photos from the Museum, see depts.washington.edu/silkroad/museums/gim/gim.html .