All tuition and fees must be paid within fifteen days after your application is accepted. Tuition and Fees are subject to change until paid in full. Places will be filled on a first come, first served basis. Institute session sizes will be at the discretion of the Museum professionals and professors who conduct the sessions. Passports and visas must be in order prior to departure.
Participants are responsible for transportation within the United States to New York for departure.
Less than three centuries have passed since Peter the Great began building his grand city on the Gulf of Finland, but it is difficult to visit its vast, crystalline squares and palaces without feeling the enormity of the gulf that separates that time from our own. All of which, of course, makes St. Petersburg more evocative of Russia's past than any place except perhaps the Moscow Kremlin. This impression is only deepened by a more familiar acquaintance. The enigmatic homeliness of Peter's cottage and the city's placid canals may contrast with the brooding grandeur of the Winter Palace, but they share with it a graceful stillness that is difficult to forget. Situated in the center of St Petersburg, the State Hermitage Museum is housed in five magnificent buildings created by celebrated architects of the 18th to 19th Century.