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Wiener Holocaust Library granted permission for building transformation
Go ahead from Camden Council for new learning area, gallery and roof garden for Grade II listed building
The Wiener Holocaust Library has received planning permission for a building extension from Camden Council.
The project to expand the library’s Russell Square home will create spaces for exhibitions, while revitalising the Grade II listed Georgian building that has been its base since 2011.
The building will feature a learning area and a first-floor gallery looking out roof garden, creating a permanent space for an exhibitions.
The work will be undertaken by architects and exhibition designers Nissen Richards Studio.
Library co-director Dr Barbara Warnock said: ”This project will be transformational for the library, enabling us to significantly expand our offering to visitors to our central London location in Russell Square.
“The beautiful new building will provide us with new opportunities to share our history and our extraordinary collections in the new exhibition space and learning space. It will strengthen our ability to bring the evidence of Nazi crimes, collected by our predecessors from the time of the Nazi rise to power, to the audiences of the future.”
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