Christian Schultz-Lorentzen, AG | 04-02 - 09:54
The forces behind a new national art museum have again pushed back a potential opening date for the multi-million kroner facility.
Late last year, the foundation set up to establish a Greenlandic National Gallery of Art had promised that a competition to design the building – a crucial step on the road to its foundation – would be held in the near future.
But foundation chairman Josef Motzfeldt announced this week that the competition would be delayed. The foundation has otherwise received hundreds of thousands of kroner in public funds, some of which was to be used for the design competition.
The newly elected Self-Rule administration had cut off the foundations funds in this year’s budget.
Motzfeldt, who assumed the helm of the board this autumn, told AG that the board is working on the design competition, but pointed out that the members of the board were volunteers and that it was impossible to set a time frame for the competition.