Hermitage Visitors Were Evacuated Due To Security Threat

The main museum complex of the State Hermitage received an anonymous message with a threat to the security regime, visitors to the museum in St. Petersburg are evacuated. This was reported by Russian media with reference to the press service of the museum.

on January 24, 2025, the main museum complex of state Hermitage received an anonymous message with a threat of security regime. The evacuation of visitors from the territory of the main museum complex was organized. Employees of the museum security service together with the employees of the Russian Guard organize an audit of exhibition halls and office premises, ”the saying says In the message of the press service of the museum.

A similar case already took place in the Hermitage in May last year. Unknown people reported on the mining of the museum, in connection with which employees led visitors from the premises.

Hermitage-the Russian State Art and Historical Museum in St. Petersburg, one of the world’s largest institutions of this kind. The main museum complex of the Hermitage is located in the historical center of St. Petersburg and includes six related buildings – the Winter Palace, the reserve house of the Winter Palace, the Small Hermitage, the Big (Old) Hermitage, the New Hermitage and the Hermitage Theater.