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Russian Museum
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art museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Key facts
- Type
- Art museum and Historic site
- Visitors
- 3,611,899 (2024)
- Website
- en .rusmuseum .ru
via Wikipedia infobox
~8 min read
Encyclopedic overview
The State Russian Museum (Russian: Государственный Русский музей), formerly known as the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III (Russian: Русский Музей Императора Александра III), on Arts Square in Saint Petersburg, is the world's largest depository of Russian fine art. It is also one of the largest art museums in the world with a total area over 30 hectares. In 2022 it attracted 2,651,688 visitors, ranking twelfth on list of most-visited art museums in the world.
Creation
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Russian Museum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.