Flood Damages Czech Archives

Prague architecture archive appeals for funds to save water damaged documents.

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October 2, 2002, 12:00 PM PDT

With the floodwaters of August now subsided and international attentionturned elsewhere, the Prague Technical Museum is left with an urgent needfor assistance to help save water damaged 19th and early 20th centuryarchitectural drawings and models. Drawings damaged include drawings byrenowned Czech architects Josef Gocar and Bedrich Feuerstein. The works hadbeen protected to 1 metre above the previous highest flood level (1890), butthis summer's flood rose 3 metres above this level, evidence perhaps of theeffects of global warming."

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