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Monday, 21 July 2008 06:00 |
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Officials figures released
Friday indicate that losses at the Fine Art Gallery following the July
1 riots may take decades to restore, according to officials.
Rioters in Ulaanbaatar burned
the gallery on July 1 and officials, who had been working to salvage
that art not destroyed, have now begun assessing their losses.
Total losses following the
riots show 926 paintings were destroyed along with 250 sculptures. Fire
destroyed nearly the entire 1,500 square meter gallery.
The dollar amount of the losses
has been set at 1.6 billon MNT, which comes to just below $1.4 million.
The Fine Art Gallery has only
two staff members trained in restoring art. Officials believe that without
international assistance it will take at least a decade to restore the
artwork that was salvaged from the fire.
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Last Updated on Monday, 21 July 2008 13:32 |
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