Floods cost Groninger Museum €40,000

The Groninger Museum estimates it has suffered €40,000 of damage due to the floods which affected Groningen province last weekend.


The museum was forced to close for three days last week, costing it thousands of visitors. It also had to move two exhibitions from its lower rooms because water was threatening to seep in through the windows.
Groninger Museum, which reopened on Tuesday, borders a canal, making it susceptible to flooding.
The museum is already €4.3m in debt and will have to cancel a number of exhibitions and sack seven staff members to get its finances back on track.

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