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New Orleans Museum of Art reopens today after cleanup

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf
The New Orleans Museum of Art was established in 1911. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license.
The New Orleans Museum of Art was established in 1911. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The New Orleans Museum of Art reopened today after a cleanup necessitated by Hurricane Isaac.

Museum director Susan Taylor tells The Times-Picayune that water seeped into the museum’s administrative offices.

Except for the swampy basement, the museum suffered minimal damage from Isaac.

Some rain intruded through the sills of the plate glass windows around the café area and an ornamental plaster truss in the museum’s atrium was dampened by a leak.

But Taylor said no artwork was affected.

Power remained out at the building until Sept. 1, delaying the repairs. Generators provided emergency power during and after the storm, but weren’t powerful enough to provide the air-conditioning necessary to operate the museum, Taylor said. Power was restored earlier this week.

The Sydney and Walda Besthoff sculpture garden next to the museum suffered damage to foliage, but museum officials said artworks on display there were not damaged by the hurricane.

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Information from: The Times-Picayune, http://www.nola.com

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The New Orleans Museum of Art was established in 1911. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license.
The New Orleans Museum of Art was established in 1911. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license.