Garage Museum to open Russia’s first contemporary art library

Russia’s first public library dedicated to contemporary art is set to open in Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art this December, housing the country’s largest specialised collection of books focusing on 20th- and 21st-century art.

The new collection, to be set up in Garage’s education centre, will comprise over 15,000 items, including rare antiquarian editions, museum collections, artists’ biographies and a variety of monographs and journals about contemporary art and architecture. The library will also offer free public access to a number of electronic catalogues and online resources.

By 2015, a gallery devoted to archive exhibition will be added to the library. The design of the gallery is being overseen by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and his firm OMA.

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