Donetsk, Dec 27 — DAN. Repairs on the war-damaged local history museum in Mariupol will be launched in the first quarter of 2024, the press service of the state-owned company “Single Customer in the Field of Construction” reported on Wednesday.
“The building has a total area of 1,900 square meters; workers will repair all load-bearing structures, replace the roof, windows and engineering lines and redo the display halls, depository, library, and reading and utility rooms, ” the press service said adding that the works would be finished in 2024.
The museum will be adapted for visitors with reduced mobility.
The building was put up in 1916. Originally, it was a home for disabled World War I veterans. In 1920, the museum unveiled its first room. It marked its centennial in 2020. Back then, it had some 60,000 items in the depository. With the recently established ethnography and Kuindzhi centers it was one of the largest museums in Donbass. It lost 95 percent of its collections as a result of fighting in 2022; the remaining exhibits were moved to Donetsk.*jk