KRASNOYARSK, April 10. /TASS/. The Arctic Museum of Modern Art (AMMA), which will be the world's northernmost museum of the kind, will open in Norilsk (the Krasnoyarsk Region) in 2026-2027. The expenses are estimated at 3 billion rubles ($36.6 million), the Museum of Norilsk's Director Natalya Fedyanina told TASS.
In summer, 2021, Nornickel's press service reported the new museum's architecture plan had passed the municipal level and was included into the city's development plan. Back then, the press service said the museum would begin working in 2025, at Nornickel's expense.
"Right now we have been working on the engineering design and papers. The contract for 177 million rubles ($2.2 million) is for design and paperwork only. [The commissioning is planned for] approximately for 2026-27," the museum's director said.
The Museum of Norilsk has six sites, she continued. Their collections will be stored at the new museum's depositary, and will be available for the audience. Those are collections, for example, from the Norilsk Art Gallery - the Krasnoyarsk Region's second largest collection of arts, and from the PolArt residence. The new museum's expenses are estimated at 3 billion rubles, she said, adding a more accurate sum will be advised after all the paperwork is ready.
The museum will take an area of 8,500 square meters. It will be in the building of a former House of Trade. Several architecture bureaus have been working on the concept.
Norilsk with the population of 180,000 is among the world's northernmost cities,.