\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 With its 75,000 square meters of exposition space, the Hermitage Museum is the largest museum in the world.\par
The museum
contains two million seven hundred thousand works, including fifteen thousand pictures, twelve thousand sculptures, six hundred thousand drawings and prints and the same number of archeological artifacts, a million coins and medals and two hundred and tw
enty thousand objects of applied art. \par
The Hermitage Museum is made up of 400 rooms, in which the collections are divided up into eight sections. A tour of the whole complex is twenty-four kilometers long.