The Diamond Room at the Hermitage Museum is a repository of the museum's magnificent and unique collections of jewelry art.  It is an absolutely fascinating collection of snuff-boxes, watches, pendants, pins, mirrors, earrings, rings, bracelets and medallions, decorated with precious stones. The Diamond Room shows the evolution of the jeweller's craft over the centuries from the third millennium B.C. to the beginning of the 20th century.

The Diamond Rooms showcase masterpieces of Russian and European jewelry art from the Romanov and private family collections, as well as pieces of church art, diplomatic gifts made by the most prominent jewelers of the time and some works by Fabergé.

The Diamond Room visit is by pre-arranged appointment only, no exceptions. Usually it lasts just for 30 minutes and you will be in a large group.
With us, your will enjoy skip-the-line Diamond Room fully private tour with a Curator, who actually curates the Diamond Room. It will take about 1 hour 15 minutes. That will allow you to see all the unique jewelry masterpieces without any rush and crush.

After the extraordinary Diamond Room tour, you will see other exhibitions of one of the best museums in the world: The State Hermitage Museum.

The Hermitage is the world culture encyclopaedia. The buildings that the Hermitage occupies are brilliant examples of European architecture. The walls of these buildings have also seen a great number of important historical events and almost all history of the Russian Empire took place within them - from Peter the Great to Nicolay II. Every visitor can feel the force of Russian history here. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three million items, including the largest collection of paintings in the world. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors.