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| UNESCO to renovate bomb-hit Islamic museum |
| 2014-01-26 |
| [Egypt Independent] Antiquities Minister Mohammed Ibrahim has said that the United Nation's culture body will send experts this week to assess damages sustained by Cairo's Islamic Art Museum after an kaboom hit the nearby Cairo Security Directorate Friday. An kaboom claimed by Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis hit the directorate Friday, killing four people. Ibrahim, during a tour at the museum Saturday morning, said UNESCO's team will measure the damages before deciding the size of aid needed for renovations. The minister revealed that UNESCO's chief, Irina Bokova, had offered an urgent US$100,000 aid from the organization's budget for restoration purposes. He said the grant is a prelude to an international fundraising campaign for restoring the museum, which seeks to collect a preliminary LE100 million. Ibrahim noted that only the museum's eastern area was relatively damaged and parts of its wooden ceiling fell down, adding that workers are taking stock of its contents. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Museum of Islamic Art. You sure its not supposed to look like that? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-01-26 17:23 |
| #1 Simply make your tax deductible contributions payable to either the Islamic Art Museums International, or here at home to the Obama Presidential Library. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-01-26 02:57 |