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The Red Room. Sirpa Pääkkönen For me one reason to return to Hermitage in Saint Petersburg again and again is Henri Matisse . When I was very young, I watched his paintings in art books and admired his bright and joyful colours and strong shapes. Emotions spread. Matisse gave me happiness and joy. When I very many years later stand in front of Matisse’s paintings in the Hermitage I can feel the same emotions which I felt as a young girl. That’s why art is so powerful. Portrait of Lydia Deletorskaya. St. Petersburg's Hermitage has one of the world's finest collections of   French artist Matisse's (1869-1954) art. A couple of years ago, the collection was moved from the main building to the General Staff Building   at the Palace Square, where the magnificent spaces for the museum's impressionist art, the 1850s, and the changing exhibitions, were renovated. Matisse's stunning paintings are enough for more than one room. The Hermitage’s ...

The Hermitage in The Palace Square in Saint Petersburg. Photo: Sirpa Pääkkönen In recent years , the world's most visited museum has been the Forbidden City Palace Museum in Beijing, China. The annual number of visits has risen there up to more than 15 million. At the forefront of the world has long remained the Louvre in Paris (8.6 million visits in 2015). Northern European museums overwhelming number one is the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg (3.7 million visits in 2015). The Forbidden City. Photo: Wikipedia. These data derive from Statistics Finland'scultural statistical table package. The Palace Museum in Beijing is located in the imperial palace of the consecutive Ming (1363-1644) and Qing (1644­-1911) dynasties. The architectural complex is also known as the Forbidden City in the middle of Beijing. The museum has vast holdings of paintings, calligraphy, ceramics and antiquities of the imperial collections. In 1987the museum was listed as a UNESCO Wor...

Ilya Repin:What a Freedom In Saint Petersburg you’ll find about 400 museums. It’s a great adventure to search them. You’ll get to know many small museums like Bread museum, Vodka museum and many artists' home museums. And then there are big historical museums with thousands of pieces of art like The Hermitage and The Russian Museum . I've seen many of the museums in Saint Petersburg and I like them very much. If you have plenty of time you can spend a day in The Hermitage or in The Russian Museum The State Russian Museum is the largest depository of Russian  fine art in Saint Petersburg . It is also one of the largest museums in Russia. Kazimir Malevitsh: Peasants. When you watch the historical paintings you watch at the same time history through the eyes of artists. Many paintings are full of details and they give a shape for historical events, how artists imagine they have happened. You can also see how the styles change and the artist make great crea...