ST. PETERSBURG, Russia— Russia’s State Hermitage Museum has announced that it will close its London branch because of financial problems, reports the New York Times. The satellite opened in 2000 in London’s Somerset House, where it shares space with the Courtauld Institute of Art. The London Hermitage was originally financed by the Hermitage Development Trust, an organization headed by British financier Jacob Rothschild and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a wealthy critic of Russian president Vladimir Putin who is now in prison for tax evasion and fraud.

The Hermitage operates spaces in Amsterdam and, with the Guggenheim Foundation, in Las Vegas. In March it signed an agreement to open one in Ferrara, Italy.