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ArtsCultural ministry struggles to support flood-damaged museums and galleries
In last week's edition of the Arts, Radio Prague's David Vaughan reported on the extensive damage done to the Museum of Central Bohemia in the little town of Roztoky during last month's floods. A few week's ago in Newsview, we featured an interview with Leo Pavlat, the director of the Jewish Museum in Prague about the state of Prague's Jewish Quarter. In this week's Arts, join Dita Asiedu as she takes a look at the damage recorded by other galleries and museums affected by the floods.
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Business NewsGovernment approves package of flood measures
The Czech government has approved a package of measures to raise extra money to finance repair of damage caused by the recent devastating floods. The government hopes to gain an extra 26 billion crowns for the state budget over the next two years.
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Current AffairsUK donates vacuum drying machines to help save books hit by floods
An estimated half a million books and documents from archives and libraries were damaged around the Czech Republic during August's floods, and trying to save valuable works is proving to be an absolutely mammoth task. At a ceremony at the National Library on Tuesday, the British Ambassador, Anne Pringle, presented Czech Culture Minister Pavel Dostal with novel vacuum drying machines which will help in that task.
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Current Affairs Planeta Peru holds benefit concert to help flood-affected children
The Planeta Peru for Children Foundation, is holding a benefit concert this Thursday for children who have suffered as a consequence of last month's devastating floods. The concert, supported by the Office of the President, will be held at Prague Castle's Spanish Hall at 8 p.m. and tickets are still available. Dita Asiedu spoke to the foundation's director, Guillermo Parodi:
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Talking PointTourists return after floods
In this week's edition of Talking Point Pavla Horakova takes a walk in the centre of Prague and talks to foreign tourists and people from the tourist business asking them whether there is still a reason to be afraid to come and visit the country.
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Letter from PraguePrague transport
Many things changed in our lives as a result of the recent floods and not only in the lives of people who were directly affected by high water. Transport is a good example. In Prague there were no collapsed bridges, buckled rail tracks or stretches of roads swept away by water - the city has a different problem. The flooding of the metro hit Prague unprepared. The backbone of public transport was broken and as though through a time warp, Prague somehow almost returned back to the early 1970's before the first stretch of the metro was built.
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ArtsDevastation and optimism at the Museum of Central Bohemia
One of the enduring images of last month's floods was the site of a wooden sculpture, a giant chair that had adorned the terrace of the Sovovy Mlyny Gallery in Prague, being swept like a child's toy down the River Vltava. The damage caused by last month's floods to museums and galleries around the Czech Republic is shocking, and the fate of that unusual wooden sculpture was by no means unique. In Prague there was also damage to the Museum of Czech Music by the Charles Bridge and the Saint Agnes Convent just downstream, housing the National Gallery's collection of Gothic art. In the south of the Czech Republic, waters swept through the Egon Schiele Gallery in Cesky Krumlov and some two hundred kilometers to the north, the collections of the museums in the former concentration camp and ghetto in Terezin were damaged. But nowhere was the destruction on the huge scale seen at the Museum of Central Bohemia, in the little town of Roztoky just north of Prague. The museum, in the town's castle, had never been flooded, and all the experts' calculations suggested it never would. But nobody reckoned with the worst flooding in 500 years. By the time the scale of the danger became clear, it was only half an hour before the waters the River Vltava swept through the museum. Last week I visited Roztoky to see the damage for myself.
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