Pushkin Museum Gets $177M Overhaul

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RAI Novosti reported on May 5, 2008 that the Russian government has allocated more than 4.2 billion rubles or $177 million (US) for the restoration and modernization of its Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, a Beaux Art structure completed in 1912. The Pushkin, Moscow's largest museum of European art, also houses collections of Egyptian antiquities, Trojan gold artifacts and replicas of ancient sculptures.

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