London museums are growing and growing. Recently it was announced that the British Museum, like the Tate Modern gallery , will have additional space. Will design firm Rogers Stick Harbour and Partners, headed by eminent architect Richard Rogers (Richard Rogers).

Extension will be a five-connected with one another pavilion with a facade of stone and glass. A pavilion will be seven levels, three of which will be located under the ground and serve as repositories. Upstairs will house exhibition space and research laboratories.

expected that the pavilions open at the end of 2012. Their construction will cost 135 million pounds (198 million dollars), of which 90 million have already been collected. Part of the funds provided the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Expansion required the museum including the major exhibitions and blockbusters. The number of visitors is constantly growing - over the past seven years it grew by one third, and facilities will not become a museum. Look at China's terracotta warriors, or the statue of Emperor Hadrian came as many people that the exhibition space is sometimes reminiscent of the London subway at rush hour. Last year the museum was visited 5.93 million, a 9 ½ percent more than in 2007. As the popularity of it second only to the Paris Louvre . Therefore, the new pavilion for the British Museum are needed - otherwise soon there will be no push.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

Source: artinfo.com , scena.org , artinvestment.ru