The Hermitage - this is a very unusual and unique museum. Firstly, it is a branch of the famous Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Secondly, all the exposure it - removable and there is no constant. Third, it does not have and can not have its own collection, since The exhibition features artifacts from the vaults of the St. Petersburg Hermitage. Similar branches existed in London and Las Vegas, but now they are closed.

Since 2009, the museum is housed in Amstelhof on the Amstel River. In this historic building in the classical style with a large square courtyard since 1682 it housed a nursing home. At first only women lived here, since 1817 - both women and men. The last inhabitants left the nursing home only in 2007, and the building was renovated. At the opening ceremony in 2009 attended by Queen Beatrix and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

The branch of the Hermitage in Amsterdam organizes exhibitions since February 2004. At first, these exhibitions were held in the neighboring building, in a small annexe to the Amstelhof. Now in this building opened Children's Hermitage.

Exhibitions in the New Hermitage on the Amstel change in March and in September. All the exhibits provided by the State Hermitage Museum, and one of the euro entrance fee goes to the fund Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. In addition to the exhibition halls in the museum there is a training center, lecture halls, restaurant. Much attention is given to work with children and their learning.

The museum takes up to 300 thousand visitors a year.