Conversion

The compound of the former sugar refinery, i.e., the compound of the Rikard Benčić factory, which was shut down at the end of the 1990s will be transformed in the new millennium into a part of the city full of new contents. The opening of the new building of the Rijeka Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in 2017 served as an announcement of these processes. The largest building of the compound, the Sugar Refinery Palace, will become the home of the City Museum of Rijeka as soon as the renovation is completed. The Museum is presently located in a building which does not have enough space for the museum’s holdings; since the 1970s, when the building was constructed, the museum holdings have increased significantly.