The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts will open filial branch in Moscow on the territory of the former bakery

The State Museum of Fine Arts. Alexander Pushkin will open a department associated with contemporary art, on the territory of the bakery them. VP Zotova on Khodynka street in Moscow by 2019.

It is noted that work on the reconstruction of administrative premises is already under way, to adapt the monument of architecture - the production building of the plant - a new project is planned for the museum (the owner intended to place a shopping center here). How much will the project cost, not reported.

The matter is that the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin may appear in the city one more building that is not included in the complex of the currently actively built museum town on Volkhonka, went a few years ago with the advent of the concept of the museum's development from the company Avesta. Among the company's proposals - a new direction Pushkin Modern, associated with contemporary art. To implement it, as the director of the museum, Marina Loshak, previously said, a new building is needed. Initially, the museum expected to receive the building of HPP-1 on the Raushskaya Embankment, after it was said that it could be buildings within the Third Ring Road. As for the current facility, Marina Loshak informed TANR that at present VTB is negotiating, and, referring to the premature nature, refused to disclose the details. "We are in a state of negotiations, discussing the details of our cooperation," she said.

Recall that VTB began cooperation with the Pushkin Museum. Alexander Pushkin in 2005, in 2016 he became his general partner. Among the projects implemented with the support of the bank - "Meeting with Modigliani", "Cranach. Between Renaissance and Mannerism "," Venice of the Renaissance. Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese "and the exhibition" Chaim Soutine. Retrospective ", which opens on October 24.