The Ministry of Culture spoke about the fate of exhibits from the Taras Shevchenko Museum in flooded Orsk

Olga Lyubimova reported that 80 items were removed before the high water arrived.

Orsk, Orenburg region, was seriously damaged due to spring floods that broke the local dam. Many buildings were in water up to the roof, in the flood zone, and the historical district – the Old Town, where the reconstructed museum of the poet and artist Taras Shevchenko is located. It turned out that the Ministry of Culture of the Orenburg Region managed to evacuate the exhibits even before the arrival of the big water. Olga Lyubimova reported this.

“Even before the high water arrived, all exhibits and all accounting documentation were removed from the museum. Total 80 items. Temporary storage items and paintings from the exhibition hall were also evacuated. All exhibits are stored in compliance with temperature and humidity conditions,” wrote Russian Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova in her tg channel.

She added that the Ministry of Culture “is monitoring the situation regarding the evacuation of museum valuables from the flood zone in the Orenburg region.”

Let us remind you that the Taras Shevchenko Museum, which opened in 1986, was reconstructed last year. The work cost the federal budget more than 9.5 million rubles. The museum was opened by the region’s top officials. It is located in the house where the poet lived when he served as a recruit in Orsk in 1847.

It is not yet known what will happen to other museum and historical objects. In the Old Town of Orsk, houses from the 19th – early 20th centuries have been preserved. In total, the second most important city in the region has more than 100 monuments. Around Orsk there are archaeological monuments – burial mounds of the Iron and Bronze Ages.