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The Hermitage Audio Guide

🇷🇺 St. Petersburg · Russia · 3+ hours

Looking for a Hermitage audio guide? Venture does something no other guide can: it tells the story of The Hermitage in a voice you love — your own, or a parent's, a partner's, a friend's. Record about twenty seconds of speech, and the whole tour of The Hermitage plays back narrated in that voice. Here's what to see inside, how long to give it, and a taste of the tour itself.

What to see in The Hermitage

A taste of the tour

“An empress built this palace to be impossible, and then filled it. They say if you spent a minute at each exhibit you’d need eleven years — so we won’t. We’ll climb the Jordan Staircase and go straight to Rembrandt’s most forgiving painting.”

— the opening of the Venture Hermitage tour, narrated in whatever voice you choose.

Good to know

Where
St. Petersburg, Russia
Time to spend
3+ hours
Entry
Ticketed
Hear The Hermitage in a voice you love

Record a voice. Hear The Hermitage narrated in it.

Venture clones a voice from a short recording and reads you a warm, knowledgeable tour of The Hermitage — yours, or someone you love. Replays are free, and the same voice narrates 12+ of the world's great museums.

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Questions

Can I really hear the Hermitage tour in my own voice?
Yes. In the Venture app you record about twenty seconds of speech once, and the entire Hermitage audio guide is narrated back in your cloned voice. You can also record a loved one's voice and hear them guide you instead.
How long is the Hermitage audio guide?
Plan on 3+ hours for The Hermitage itself. The Venture tour is written to walk you to the highlights that matter rather than every gallery, so you can do it at your own pace and re-listen for free.
Is there a free Hermitage audio guide?
You can browse the written tour and highlights for free. Recording a voice and hearing the full narrated Hermitage tour is part of Venture Audio Tours, a $9.99/month subscription with 120 minutes of narration and unlimited replays.
Do I need Wi-Fi inside The Hermitage?
Generate the tour before you go and it's cached on your phone, so replays work even where signal is poor.

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