The National Museum of Fine Arts will next year move to the Auberge d’Italie in Merchants Street, Valletta, which currently houses the Malta Tourism Authority.

Describing this as a show of the government’s ­determination to putting artistic and creative expression at the centre of the country’s cultural regeneration, Finance Minister Tonio Fenech said €200,000 would be spent on the ­project.

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