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The Hermitage has been included in the ranking of the best museums in the world, TASS reports. Experts of the TripAdvisor travel service made the list. This is one of the most well-known websites in the worldwide tourist network, according to travelers. The list includes 25 museums; the Hermitage is on the 15th position. This is the only Russian museum in the ranking.
One of the visitors called the Hermitage the concentration of all the world beauty. According to him, this museum gives the opportunity to visit all the places and all epochs that you have ever dreamed of seeing.
Fine Arts Musée d’Orsay in Paris tops the list. It disposes one of the largest collections of works by European artists and sculptors worked in 1850-1910. The second place goes to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum located on the site of the World Trade Center towers destroyed in 2001 in New York. The New York Metropolitan Museum is the third.
According to Russkiy Mir, the Hermitage entered the top five of this rating last year. The Hermitage is one of the leaders in the ranking of museums with the highest reputation in the world composed by the specialists from the Dutch Erasmus University.
The Hermitage won the Travelers' Choice award in a Museum category. It was recognized as the best not only among Russian but also among European cultural treasures repositories. The TripAdvisor portal awarded the prize. Travelers from abroad believe that the Hermitage remains one of the main reasons for visiting Russia and its northern capital.
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