Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Stolen Van Gogh Painting from Egypt's Cairo Museum is driving Hosni crazy!!

So I've learned Egypt's government, damn serious with their artworks, paintings to be specific...
Egypt's Minister of Culture Hosni looks at Islamic ornaments during a private tour of the newly reconstructed Egyptian Islamic Museum in Old Cairo
Egypt's culture minister Hosni says "I can't work with these incompetent employees," he said. "I'm tired and I can't sleep, because I wake up in the middle of the night fearing for the artefacts and the museums." sounds like someone's going crazy..for a piece of great fine art with History and deep price ahem ahem, i sorta would too..sorta
"The painting would have been stolen even if there were a thousand surveillance cameras, because of the negligence of the museum staff,"
He blamed "incompetent" security staff for the theft of a $55 million Van Gogh painting from a Cairo museum and said worries for the safety of the country's art treasures are depriving him of sleep.Hosni said The ministry is to create a central control room to monitor all museums, in the near future, supervised by his cabinet and set up a committee to review surveillance of museums across the country. (quick question, do think Tanzania's  whole culture Cabinet would agree to monitor museum safety, dunno by taking turns maybe..)
The lengths one would go to protect valuable artwork, i love people who are passionate with paintings, Art...  okay get this...
 An early investigation of the theft showed that only seven out of 43 security cameras working properly, seriously!!! 7 out of 43?  And no one even uttered a word all this time?!! Talk about sloppy security!And i thought Only my country was sloppy with Security measures..Damn
The painting,"Poppy Flower" was stolen on Saturday morning from Cairo's Mahmoud Khalil Museum, home to one of the Middle East's finest collections of 19th- and 20th-century art.

Cairo Museum
These guys aren't messing around, Their Culture ministry's head of fine art, Mohsen Shaalan, has been detained along with four other officials pending investigation for 19 days after being accused of "negligence and failing to carry out their employment duties".Nine other employees were barred from travel. Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt said in a statement that they are currently setting up an additional 18 museums and they will all be supplied with state of the art security sensors against theft and fires.

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