INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Amsterdam's Hermitage museum said Monday it will change its name, a year after severing ties with the St
called a "new beginning."It also announced partnerships with the British Museum in London, the Pompidou Centre in Paris and Smithsonian
American Art Museum in Washington so that "world-famous art collections come to Amsterdam.""It is an exciting new step," museum director
Amsterdam Hermitage opened in 2009 as a venue for the St
Petersburg-based Hermitage Museum to show parts of its huge collection for exhibition.Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president at the time who
has become increasingly hawkish over Ukraine, attended the opening.But the Amsterdam branch severed ties with the Russian museum in March
2022, weeks after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, saying the link was "no longer tenable."Most of its collection has been closed to the public
since then.Its first major exhibition under the new name will feature Russian-born painter Wassily Kandinsky, in a partnership with the
Pompidou Centre, in mid-2024.It will then stage an exhibition of 17 Rembrandt paintings the following year to mark the 750th anniversary of
