Israeli art dealers hide their artifacts in storage, fearing air raids
ARTinvestment.RU   21 ноября 2012

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art 200 exhibits, including about a hundred paintings by Brueghel dynasty, is tucked away in storage, which can withstand a missile attack
Employee of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art is hiding in the store still life brush Abraham Brueghel
Officer Tel Aviv Museum of Art is hiding in the store still life brush Abraham Brueghel
Source: artdaily.com

by Israeli museums decided to hide their artifacts in storage to protect them from possible missile strikes. For a week the Israeli Air Force planes are bombing the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian side sends missiles at Tel Aviv and other southern cities on its borders.

Tel Aviv Museum of Art on Monday removed from exposure about 200, including at least a hundred paintings of Flemish painters belonging to the famous dynasty of painters Brueghel. The museum is just an exhibition "All his sons Brueghel dynasty," and many exhibited paintings came from foreign collections. True, the organizers of the exhibition noted that many museums did not dare to send to Tel Aviv paintings by Pieter Brueghel, and limit the work of his relatives, other owners of the painting did not risk anything at all to send in Tel Aviv, where the recent unrest.

Now those who still dare to give the Israeli museum paintings temporary exhibition can sleep easy - their pictures under heavy guard. "Even if the probability of a missile strike is very low, we can not ignore it, - said the chief curator of the museum and the chief restorer Doron J. Lurie (Doron J. Lurie). - These pictures are almost like children to us. " At that time, while the most valuable paintings are in storage, entrance fee to the museum with the residents of southern Israel, no fee, and all other visitors can buy tickets at a deep discount.

In the southern Ashdod, which is even closer to the Gaza Strip, the Art Museum of the contemporary artist hiding Tsibi Geva (Tsibi Geva). In the four-level underground storage compartment is able to withstand not only a missile attack, but also biological weapons. This store is used for the first time since the museum opened in 2003.

Prepared Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources : artdaily.com , artinvestment.ru



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