The Hermitage Amsterdam art museum has been renamed one year after it severed ties with Russia's State Hermitage museum over Moscow's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The museum on June 26 announced it would be called the H'ART Museum from September 1 and announced new partnerships with the British Museum, the Pompidou Center, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in what H;ART Director Annabelle Birnie called "a contemporary and future-proof model." The museum opened in 2009 and primarily displayed works from St. Petersburg's Hermitage museum. To read the original story by AP, click here.
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