Ukraine, Russian attack damages Odessa Museum of Fine Arts

by Redazione , published on 07/11/2023
Categories: News / Disclaimer
On Sunday night, a Russian missile and drone attack damaged the Odessa Museum of Fine Arts, just on the eve of its 124th birthday. The institute forced to close.

On the night of Sunday to Monday, a Russian missile and drone attack on Odessa caused significant damage to the Odessa Museum of Fine Arts , which just the next day would have celebrated its 124th anniversary, since it was opened to the public on November 6, 1899. The museum was forced to close: it was precisely on November 6 that a day of free admission was planned to mark the institution’s birthday. The museum informed that the attack resulted in no casualties (instead, five people were injured in the city during the same action).

Damage assessment is still ongoing, but photographs show that the Russian attack damaged the building, causing injuries to the walls and shattering glass and windows. The museum also issued a list of seven works that, due to the damage to the museum, “can no longer be exhibited” (so the institution in a note), but without specifying what kind of damage they suffered. The collection of the Odessa Museum of Fine Arts (the venue is the neoclassical Potocki Palace, one of the oldest in the city) is very important: it numbers more than 10 thousand works, including those on display and those in storage, and is a key reference point for the arts of local schools between the fifth and twentieth centuries (there are works by artists such as Vasily Kandinsky Ivan Aivazovsky, Ilya Repin, Valentin Serov, Boris Kustodiev and many others). Fortunately, the damage was limited because much of the collection had already been secured, but several pieces were still on display in the halls.

Damage to the Odessa Museum of Fine Arts.
Damage to the Odessa Museum of Fine Arts
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Damage to the Odessa Museum of Fine Arts.
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Damage to the Odessa Museum of Fine Arts.
Damage to the Museum of Fine Arts in Odessa

Ukraine, Russian attack damages Odessa Museum of Fine Arts
Ukraine, Russian attack damages Odessa Museum of Fine Arts


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