Hermitage Museum Floor Plan
The Hermitage is vast: the Main Museum Complex alone has hundreds of rooms over three floors, and it is easy to lose your bearings. The surest way to navigate is by room number — shown on the doorways and on the free paper map handed out at the entrance. Below is a map of the key points, floor by floor.
How the museum is laid out
The Main Museum Complex is five connected buildings along Palace Embankment: the Winter Palace, the Small, Old (Large) and New Hermitage, and the Hermitage Theatre. Room numbering runs continuously and is your main navigation aid. Separately, across Palace Square, stands the General Staff Building with the Impressionists — it needs its own ticket.
Ground floor
Ancient cultures and the treasure galleries:
- Ancient Egypt (Room 100) — sarcophagi, a mummy, reliefs;
- Classical antiquity (around Rooms 107–131) — Greek and Roman sculpture and vases;
- the cultures of Siberia, the Caucasus and the Black Sea region;
- the Gold Room and Diamond Room — by guided session only.
First floor (the main highlights)
The Winter Palace state rooms and the most important paintings:
| What | Room |
|---|---|
| Jordan (Ambassadors’) Staircase | 1 |
| Field Marshals’ Hall | 193 |
| Armorial Hall | 195 |
| 1812 War Gallery | 197 |
| St George (Great Throne) Hall | 198 |
| Malachite Room | 189 |
| Pavilion Hall, the Peacock Clock | 204 |
| Leonardo da Vinci — Madonna Litta and Benois Madonna | 214 |
| Titian and the Venetians | 221 |
| Raphael — Conestabile Madonna, the Raphael Loggias | 227–229 |
| Rembrandt — Return of the Prodigal Son and Danaë | 254 |
Note: “first floor” here is the European (1st) floor above the ground floor.
Second floor
Asian art (China, Japan, Central Asia) and part of the numismatics collection. The Impressionists and Post-Impressionists (Monet, Renoir, Matisse, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Picasso) are not here — they are in the General Staff Building, a common route mistake.
Using the plan
- Pick up the free paper map at the entrance or download the plan from the official site.
- Note the room numbers of the works you want and build a path around them.
- Cover the main points with the ready-made one-day itinerary.
- Preview the rooms beforehand with the virtual tour.
FAQ
Which room are the Prodigal Son and Danaë in? Both are in Room 254 (the Rembrandt room) on the first floor.
Where is Leonardo da Vinci? Room 214: Madonna Litta and the Benois Madonna.
Where is the Peacock Clock? In the Pavilion Hall (Room 204) of the Small Hermitage.
Where are the Impressionists? In the separate General Staff Building, not in the Winter Palace.
This is an unofficial, informational website. Room numbers and contents change (renovations, temporary exhibitions) — check the current plan on the official museum website.