2022-03-14
New opening date for the Reinhard Ernst Museum
The building owner and the architects have adjusted the schedule to fit our current circumstances and have postponed the opening date of the Reinhard Ernst Museum until the spring of 2023.
“Anyone who plans and constructs such a building over several years, has to be able to reckon with variables”, says the building owner and benefactor Reinhard Ernst. Given the unknowns and the extent of what was unforeseeable that the companies and site management involved in the construction would have to deal with, it was impossible to plan these things in advance.
The events at the start of construction that could not be predicted such as the Covid years have led to global bottlenecks in building materials and disrupted established supply chains throughout the industry. “These difficulties have repeatedly required creative solutions but they have become so overriding in recent months that postponing the opening date to next year has become unavoidable”, Reinhard Ernst went on to say. “The big difference between this and building a ‘normal’ house is that once the building is completed, we first have to establish a constant level of humidity and temperature before the works of art can move into storage and can then be hung in the exhibition areas. In addition, the quality of the construction work must not suffer under any circumstances due to a lack of time.”
The new schedule at a glance
- November 2022: Chillida sculpture and maple tree delivered to the atrium
- December 2022: End of construction, commissioning of building services
- January 2023: Move into the museum offices
- From March 2023: Hanging the works of art
- Spring 2023: Opening