This week I'm featuring *photo essays from our day in St. Petersburg with TJ Travel.
Our first stop is the Hermitage Museum.
As a child of the Enlightenment, Catherine the Great began collecting artwork in 1764.
Her collection has grown to be one of the oldest and largest museum collections in the world.
Only a portion of the over 3 million pieces are on permanent display at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. The collections are housed in a series of buildings along the Palace Embankment, the most famous of them being the Winter Palace.
The Museum opens a little bit early for tour groups and because it was just the three of us, we were able to move quickly and easily through the massive tour groups that started arriving in droves. The museum interior and architecture is just as interesting as the renowned collections. It is definitely the most exquisite museum I've ever seen. We spent just a few hours exploring and taking photographs. You could return again and again and never see it all.
It's still so hard to imagine so many amazing creations in one place.
What is your favorite museum piece?
