The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow has a permanent home that opened on June 12, 2015, in a 1968 building redesigned by Rem Koolhaas. The 1968 building was originally the Soviet-era restaurant Vremena Goda. Konstantin Melnikov designed the original Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage in 1926, which the article calls Constructivist. Shigeru Ban designed a temporary pavilion in Gorky Park used from 2012. The article gives no materials, dimensions or style for the Koolhaas building.
Garage opened in June 2008 in the bus garage as the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture and took its current name on May 1, 2014. Dasha Zhukova and Roman Abramovich founded it, and the article calls it privately funded. Amy Winehouse performed privately at the opening.
It holds permanent collections and changing exhibitions, and runs a research center with archives on Russian contemporary art from the 1950s. The article gives no hours.
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