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# Pushkin Museum refused the Ludwig collection over the branch name
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/samoe-glupoe-v-etom-pereimenovanii-eto-nesvoevremennost/
- Published: 2026-11-15T10:47:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-15T11:00:16.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, Moscow, Museums, Observations, Heritage

The silliest thing about this renaming is its poor timing. For when the Pushkin Museum was offered, as a gift, the greatest collection of contemporary art of the second half of the twentieth century, [the collection of Peter Ludwig](https://t.me/captainpaleo/28135?ref=theparnassian.com), the very reason for the refusal was the condition that the new branch should be called the "Ludwig Gallery" or the "Ludwig Museum". The museum, or rather its management, judged it impossible to name a branch after so considerable a donor. As a result we see that the names of the divisions of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, it turns out, are not so immovable and eternal after all, but the Ludwig collection is already in another cultured city, while the Pushkin Museum now has a Gallery of New Art, but not one of the most outstanding collections of post-war art in the world