TheHermitage-Vyborg Center (Russian:Выставочный центр "Эрмитаж-Выборг") is an external branch of theSaint Petersburg basedHermitage Museum in theKarelian town ofVyborg. The museum was opened in 2010. Hermitage-Vyborg Center is located in theVyborg Art Museum and Drawing School building (1930), which was designed by theFinnish architectUno Ullberg.[1]
Vyborg Art Museum and Drawing School was built in 1929–1930 when the town was a part ofFinland. Theclassicism andfunctionalism style building is located on top of the 16th-century Panzerlachs Bastion, which was one of the fortifications of theVyborg town wall.[2] LikeAlvar Aalto's famousVyborg Library, it is another remarkable piece of Finnish-eramodern architecture in Vyborg.[3]
The museum had a large collection of Finnish and European art as well as works of various Russian masters. Vyborg was the second largest city in Finland and the Vyborg Art Museum was considered the country's second-most significant art museum, next to theAteneum inHelsinki. It was severely damaged duringWorld War II and the collections were relocated to several Finnish art museums. After the war, Vyborg became a part of theSoviet Union and the building was renovated for administrative use.[3]
The latest renovations took place in the early 2000s. A children's art school was opened in 2003 and the Hermitage-Vyborg Center project was launched in November 2007. The branch museum was finally opened in June 2010.
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