Sursock Museum To Reopen on Friday 26 Might!

The Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock Museum was one in every of many cultural & historic websites considerably broken by the August 4 explosion. In reality, over 600 constructing having heritage standing, concentrated within the historic districts of Gemmayzeh and Mar Mikhael, had been affected by the explosion.

The museum needed to shut consequently however after relentless work for the previous two years with the assistance of the Worldwide Alliance for the Safety of Heritage in Battle Areas (ALIPH), the French Ministry of Tradition and Agenzia Italiana Per la Cooperazione Allo Sviluppo (AICS) with UNESCO-Li Beirut, it’ll reopen its doorways this Friday at 7:30PM and can return as a premiere cultural hub in Beirut.

Background:

The Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock Museum is one in every of Lebanon’s most vital and most visited museums. It first opened in 1961 with a mission to gather, protect, and exhibit native and worldwide artwork, and performed key function within the improvement of the cultural scene in Beirut, particularly within the Sixties and Seventies.

The museum reopened formally in 2015 however was severely broken in the course of the Beirut port explosion final 12 months. All of the stained-glass home windows on the museum’s façade had been obliterated and the roof was broken, leaving the museum uncovered to the weather. The artwork works had been safely moved into storage however the restore prices had been estimated within the tens of millions to not point out plenty of mandatory uncooked supplies was now not obtainable within the nation.

It’s Official! The Sursock Museum will reopen its doorways on Friday, 26 Might at 7:30 pm. This occasion marks a milestone within the museum’s historical past following practically three years of compelled closure throughout which, because of the in depth injury attributable to the Beirut Port Explosion.

— Sursock Museum (@sursockmuseum) Might 13, 2023