The Hermitage Museum “reportedly has three-million paintings, sculptures, drawings and decorative objects on its six-block site. But it’s not entirely sure of that number or precisely where among its 400-plus rooms all that stuff is located, since it’s never done a complete inventory in its 250-year history.” Now a consortium of foundations is helping the museum to audit its holdings and bring the Hermitage into the modern age, more or less, and on a footing equal, more or less, to that of the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the British Museum.”