Repairs in new Vasilyev gallery enter homestretch
(KZN.RU, March 11, by Taisiya Basharkina) Interior decoration should start no later than March 25 in the building on Bauman Street to which the Konstantin Vasiliev museum will move. The museum is due to open its doors for the new tourist season. This goal was set by Kazan Mayor Ilsur Metshin at today's Business Monday.
The exhibition area of the new gallery is 800 square meters – almost 2.5 times greater than that of the current gallery on Gvardeyskaya Street. The museum will have two exhibition rooms with natural light and directional lighting, a low-light graphics room, a library and a memorial with a display of the artist's personal items. An agreement has been reached with the artist's sister: in addition to the Kazan collection, the one currently held in Moscow will also be exhibited in the new building.