The Metropolitan Museum of Ivan Gonchar filled with hot water

Flooded historical value in the centre Kiev’s. The famous Metropolitan Museum of Ivan Gonchar near the monastery filled with hot water. The Museum staff from four in the morning alone pulled on a dry exhibits. Saved almost everything, but no restoration will not do, says TSN.16.45

After a breakthrough in the heating duct hot water has filled the exhibition space in the basement. Repairmen from 9 in the morning trying to pump water, but it all arrives.

The chief engineer of the Museum Kostya leads to the basement. The legs burn, the water temperature of almost eighty degrees. After a moment, the coast dissolves in a pair. As if from a fog swim reproductions of old photographs of elderly Ukrainians and their beautiful women.

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After a breakthrough in the heating duct hot water has filled the exhibition space in the basement. The Museum staff from 4 a.m. to pull on dry exhibits. Saved almost everything, but no restoration will not do.

TSN. 16:45

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The most valuable and vulnerable the exhibits of the Museum made the still night is icons, paintings, musical instruments. Last stand pottery – she is very afraid of water.

Burst pipes in 3 nights, from four in the morning Director of the Museum, together with the employees already wore unique exhibits on the second floor to the offices, storerooms, corridors. Most of the exhibits managed to pick up humidity. Now we have to dry and wait, by any chance, come out if insidious mold, say the Museum staff.

The difference in humidity and temperature are very harmful for the exhibits, because the temperature and humidity should be stable. But the building itself just to dry fails, needs repair.

The Metropolitan Museum of Ivan Gonchar filled with hot water

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