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MUSEUM NEWS
£22m Polish WWII
museum planned
A 100m zlotych (£22m, 25m,
US$36m) museum commemorating
World War II is being planned to open
in Gdansk, Poland.
The Museum of the Second World
War will depict the tragic fate of
Poland between 1939 and 1945,
set against the experiences of other
nations – conquered and occupied,
putting up resistance, fi ghting on
military fronts, underground and by
means of civilian revolt.
Along with Polish experts, the muse-
Beatlesmania is housed in the former Erotic Art Museum um’s programming board will feature
war historians from all over Europe.
Beatles museum opens in Hamburg
IMA art park to
A museum dedicated to The Beatles has Backstage Area where they are shown
opened in Hamburg, Germany. a fi lmed interview with the artist of the
open in June
The former Erotic Art Museum now Revolver album, Klaus Voormann.
houses 1,300sq m (14,000sq ft) of exhi- The Bravo Blitz Tour celebrates the out- The Indianapolis Museum of Art’s
bition space split into eleven rooms break of Beatlemania, with videobeamers (IMA) art and nature park is due to
documenting the story of the band’s rise to transporting visitors into the centre of a open to the public in June 2010.
stardom, beginning with the signing of their 1,000-strong crowd of screaming fans. The 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks
fi rst record deal in Hamburg in the 1960s. next room, the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Art & Nature Park – adjacent to IMA’s
Visitors begin their trip down memory Club Band, houses an oversized cover of 52-acre campus – used to be a quarry,
lane at the Port of Entry, where a photo can the LP and replicas of the four costumes but now features woodlands, wet-
be taken using the 1960s passport photo worn by The Beatles for the album cover. lands, meadows and a 35-acre lake.
machine for insertion into an entrance The tour ends at the White Album, where When it opens, the park will present
ticket resembling a passport. a fi rst pressing of the actual record can be art projects, exhibitions and discus-
The next area features a reproduced viewed in a replica of a teenage fan’s bed- sions, which – according to the IMA
street from the St Pauli nightclub district, room. The museum, which took 10 months – are designed to “strengthen the
where original photographs, contracts, to construct, cost owner FKP Ausstellungs- public’s understanding of the unique,
drinks menus, fl yers and receipts are dis- und Betriebsgesellschaft mbH around reciprocal relationships between con-
played. Visitors are then led to a replica 2.5m (£2.2m, US$3.5m). temporary art and the natural world”.
British Museum expansion approved
The London Borough of Camden Council existing buildings and “diminish the muse-
in London, UK, has awarded planning per- um’s existing architectural delights”.
mission to the £135m (US$210m, 154m) The rejigged plans, drawn up by archi-
expansion of the British Museum. tects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners,
The plans were given the green light at include sinking part of the extension below
the second time of trying, after the council ground. This will be done in an attempt to
had turned down an initial application for solve criticism that the extension will block
the redevelopment work in June 2009. views of the Grade I-listed Reading Room.
The previous plans, which were rejected, RSHP’s original plans include a 1,000
had angered a local conservation group, sq m (10,760sq ft) building at the rear of
Bloomsbury Conservation Area Advisory the museum, replacing the former offi ces
Committee (BCAAC). of the British Library on Montague Place,
In its complaint, BCAAC claimed the as well as a conservation centre to train
development would block daylight from the museum conservators. The museum will be expanded
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