The Kremlin Museums in Moscow and the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg are in talks with the authorities in Abu Dhabi to hold loan exhibitions in the emirate. The Kremlin Museums are planning an exhibition in Abu Dhabi’s Emirates Palace luxury hotel in September. The Hermitage director, Mikhail Piotrovsky, who is an Islamic specialist, is also in talks with the authorities in Abu Dhabi. Last year the Hermitage held talks with the Prado in Madrid and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna to jointly display works in Abu Dhabi, but that idea was rejected in favour of the establishment of a Louvre outpost.

Read full article (The Artnewspaper, April 19, 2007)

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