Russia’s Hermitage Museum Moves Closer to Opening a Barcelona Branch, But Squabbling City Authorities Could Still Sink It
Japanese architect Toyo Ito is designing the new museum.
A rendering of Hermitage Barcelona. Courtesy of Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects.
Russia’s Hermitage Museum is one step closer to finalizing its long planned expansion to Spain—but significant obstacles still lay ahead.
Today, the port of Barcelona’s board of directors approved the building of a new Hermitage branch on the coast of the Catalonian city.
Like Hermitage Amsterdam and Hermitage Kazan, Hermitage Barcelona will operate as a kind of satellite institution for the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. It will draw from the extensive holdings of the Russian museum while developing a collection of its own over time.