🖼 Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

A contemporary art museum in the former Vremena Goda restaurant of 1968, converted into a gallery.

The museum was founded in 2008 by Dasha Zhukova and Roman Abramovich, and takes its name from its first address, Melnikov and Shukhov's Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage.
At the opening on 16 September 2008, Amy Winehouse gave a private concert.
In 2012 Garage operated in the park in a temporary pavilion by the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, made of six-metre paper tubes.
The present building opened on 12 June 2015; the Vremena Goda restaurant was designed by Igor Vinogradsky and Igor Pyatkin.
During the reconstruction OMA kept the mosaic of a red-haired girl in foliage, which became one of the museum's symbols.
It has hosted retrospectives of Mark Rothko, Louise Bourgeois and Marina Abramović, as well as Yayoi Kusama's first exhibitions in Russia.
The museum has a library of contemporary art, opened in 2014 as the first public one in Russia.