Prague - During the planned reconstruction of the National Museum building in Prague, heritage conservationists will not be able to use the original old mosaic tiles that remained after the previous reconstruction of the museum's corridors. The tiles made from Italian stone, which is almost no longer quarried, ended up in a landfill a few years ago. According to experts, this resulted in an unquantifiable loss. This was reported today by television Nova. Over 100,000 tiles ended up in the landfill. They were stored in a restoration workshop that went bankrupt in 2001. The then-administrator of the bankruptcy estate had most of them, along with other materials from the workshop, discarded as waste, Nova reported. According to her, the administrator acted probably out of ignorance. Due to the course of the bankruptcy and the liquidation of the workshop, a number of lawsuits have been filed, the television informed. The husband of the bankruptcy administrator stated that items from the workshop were taken over by a company from Pardubice, which transported all the material away. He claims that no originals were there. However, the state heritage preservation institute warned at that time that there was unique material in the workshop. The National Museum will commemorate its 200th anniversary in 2018. It would like to celebrate this anniversary in a completely new form, therefore, its existing building is set to be reconstructed from 2011 to 2015. The Ministry of Culture has allocated 4.5 billion crowns for the renovation. The neighboring building of the former Czechoslovak Federal Assembly will also become part of the museum, connected to the current museum premises by a tunnel. The National Museum manages 20 million collection items and has fifty buildings, of which 20 are exhibition spaces.
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