The Pinacoteca of Paris, suffered a sharp drop in attendance including after the attacks in 2015, will close its doors on Monday, even interrupting prematurely the current exhibition devoted to Karl Lagerfeld, Friday announced the management.
The property, which had lost two years from 20 to 25% of its visitors, was placed in receivership at the end of the year.
Located in the Madeleine district, this private museum “suffered like all museums in Paris an impressive drop in visitors who can no longer maintain such expensive site,” says its president Marc Restellini, which also refers to “the economic climate deadly largely linked to the attacks on 13 November. ”
“Our goal is a medium-term redeployment in local economically bearable,” he adds.
Meanwhile, Karl Lagerfeld exhibition, which was also affected attendance drop, will close Monday night.
Founded in 2003 by the art historian, the Pinacoteca had 2,000 m2 of exhibition space in a building Place de la Madeleine, in the heart of Paris.
She then rented an additional 3,000 m2 on two levels in a nearby building to expose a collection “permanent”, consisting of loans from private collectors.
The permanent collections will be redeployed between Singapore and the future of Pinakothek Paris “that we will open soon,” Did you said.
February 12, 2016
sivertimes
