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To preserve, study, and make accessible to the public world-class collections of art and cultural heritage spanning human history from the Stone Age to the present, and to foster education, scholarship, and cultural exchange.

One of the world's largest and oldest art museums, the State Hermitage in St. Petersburg holds over three million items in the Winter Palace complex, with exceptional collections of Western European painting, antiquities, Scythian gold, and Impressionist art.