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Please direct individual enquiries about the history of Migros to the Historical Company Archives of the Federation of Migros Cooperatives.
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In the summer of 1978, Migros opened a exhibition hall for new international art, known as the InK, in a former engineering works factory a few hundred meters from FCM headquarters. Renowned artists were encouraged – and paid – to use the new facilities director Urs Raussmüller believed «art should not be preserved, but created». The NZZ newspaper praised the concept as «bold and original». Raussmüller brought important artists such as Bruce Nauman, Gerhard Richter, Sol LeWitt, and Georg Baselitz to Zurich, while at the same time building the foundations of an important art collection.
In 1996, the art collection found a new home on the Löwenbräu grounds in the newly founded Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, which aims to «show, collect and share international contemporary art» and «ease the often fraught relationship between art and the public», according to Curator Rein Wolfs. After lengthy renovation work, the museum reopened in 2012. The Wall Street Journal called the location, which also houses the city art galleries, an «experiment which is held up as a world-wide model of creative synergy».