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Founded by Dasha Zhukova and Roman Abramovich in 2008.1
When the museum opened in June 2008, it was housed in Moscow's former Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage, designed in 1926 by the Constructivist architect Konstantin Melnikov, hence the museum's name. Dasha Zhukova was the first director of museum. The British singer Amy Winehouse gave a private performance at the official opening.
In 2009 it was the main venue for the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Jean-Hubert Martin. During the Biennale, over 100,000 people a month visited the Garage Museum.
In 2012, the museum relocated to a temporary pavilion designed by architect Shigeru Ban in Gorky Park before moving to its permanent home on 12 June 2015.
The museum's new headquarters was originally a modernist building built in 1968 as the Vremena Goda (English:Seasons of the Year), a Soviet-era restaurant. It was redesigned by Rem Koolhaas specifically for the Garage Museum.
Zhukova, who was formerly editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine Pop, founded Garage Magazine, an art and fashion magazine in 2008.
The museum was awarded the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation for their contributions to promotion of Japanese Culture in Russia on December 1, 2020.
From Wikipedia’s article on Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4