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Car, flattened in earthquake, in front of location in Port au Prince former site of Nader Gallery2. Various of the wrecked museum3, Various of destroyed paintings 4. Tilt up of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003ePort Au Prince, Haiti - 03 December 2010\u003cbr/\u003e1. Car, flattened in earthquake, in front of location in Port au Prince former site of Nader Gallery\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of the wrecked museum\u003cbr/\u003e3, Various of destroyed paintings \u003cbr/\u003e4. Tilt up of wooden statue with head missing\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003ePort Au Prince, Haiti - 04 December 2010\u003cbr/\u003e5. Pan right to exterior of Nader Gallery in P�tionville, suburb of Port au Prince\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various of people looking at paintings in gallery\u003cbr/\u003e7. Set up of gallery owner Georges Nader Jr. walking into gallery\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Georges Nader Jr., present owner of gallery (son of founder Georges S Nader) \u003cbr/\u003e\"Ten days after I said: 'We cannot let this treasure (be) buried underneath the rubble'. So I went down there with a group of about 30 people and we started digging and I found out that it was possible to find paintings in good shape, so we worked there about for three months and at the end, out of the 15,000 paintings that we got there, we got 14,000 of them out.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003ePort Au Prince, Haiti - 03 December 2010\u003cbr/\u003e9. Various of destroyed art in the rubble of former museum\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003ePort Au Prince, Haiti - 04 December 2010\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Georges Nader Jnr, present owner of gallery (son of Georges S Nader) \u003cbr/\u003e\"Out of the 14,000 we had about 3,000 of them damaged. When I say damaged, I mean badly damaged. Damaged because they were the most important paintings. They were hanging on the wall, so when everything fell, the concrete fell on them and got damaged.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003ePort Au Prince, Haiti - 06 December 2010\u003cbr/\u003e11. Various details of damaged paintings being restored\u003cbr/\u003e12. Pan right of various damaged paintings in restoration shop to restorer working on painting on wall\u003cbr/\u003e13. Various of paintings and restorers moving paintings\u003cbr/\u003e14.SOUNDBITE: (English) John Georges Nader Jr., present owner of gallery (son of Georges S Nader)\u003cbr/\u003e\"We the Naders, we said that, okay we're going to set about 500 paintings aside that will be part of that museum, so this will be part of our contribution. We'll take 500 paintings, the most important ones, and put them in a museum like that.  We can preserve them from further earthquakes, for future generations because there are not much art left in Haiti.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Various of paintings in gallery \u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Georges Nader Jr., present owner of gallery (son of Georges S Nader)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Giving food, you eat it and that's it, but preserving the culture, I mean for 100 years my grand grandchildren, my children can see them. I think that that's very important to see the past, to kind of remember what was good in Haiti.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003ePort Au Prince, Haiti - 04 December 2010\u003cbr/\u003e17. Pan right across painting in storage to Nader walking in\u003cbr/\u003e18. Various details of paintings and sculpture, \u003cbr/\u003e19. Various of Nader inspecting paintings and sculpture\u003cbr/\u003e20. UPSOUND: (English) Georges Nader Jr., present owner of gallery (son of Georges S Nader) \u003cbr/\u003e\"Here we have, I think on that pile, we must have bout 500 paintings damaged. We've pulled them off of their stretchers and separated them with pieces of paper, hoping that sometimes we will be able to restore them.\"\u003cbr/\u003e21. Tilt down paintings stacked in storage room \u003cbr/\u003e22.  SOUNDBITE (English) Georges Nader Jr., present owner of gallery (son of Georges S Nader)\u003cbr/\u003e\"What we need is structure. We need a structure for a museum, we need a government structure.  We need a structure in everything.\" \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003ePort Au Prince, Haiti - 03 December 2010\u003cbr/\u003e25.Various of rubble of destroyed museum \u003cbr/\u003eWhen the devastating earthquake struck Haiti a year ago - hundreds of thousands of lost their lives and a whole cultural tradition was buried beneath the rubble.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Musee d'Art Nader, housing a unique collection of Haitian art, was destroyed, but much of the treasured collection was recovered and is now being painstakingly restored.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Musee d'Art Nader on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince was the culmination of a lifetime's work by Georges S. Nader and his family.\u003cbr/\u003eA private enterprise, the Naders began acquiring Haitian art in 1966, building up a huge collection of painting and sculpture, chronicling Haiti's vibrant history and culture.\u003cbr/\u003eBut on 12 January 2010, the whole infrastructure of Haiti's capital Port au Prince was brought crashing down by the magnitude-7 earthquake which levelled large areas of the city.\u003cbr/\u003eThe museum was completely destroyed and it was feared that all the art treasures had been lost, until Georges Nader Jnr decided to investigate.\u003cbr/\u003eHe said \"We cannot let this treasure be buried underneath the rubble. So I went down there with about 30 people and we start(ed) digging and I found out that it was possible to find paintings in good shape,\" explain the son of the gallery founder and now its owner.\u003cbr/\u003e\"So we worked there about for three months and at the end, out of the 15,000 paintings that we got there, we got 14,000 of them out.\"\u003cbr/\u003eMany of paintings are being restored at a conservation centre set up in Port-au-Prince in association with the Smithsonian Institute, where experts from US museums help repair and train local craftsmen to perform the intricate restoration work.\u003cbr/\u003eThe restoration effort will take around 20 years, Nader Jnr estimates.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Out of the 14,000 we had about 3,000 of them damaged, when I say damaged I mean badly damaged, damaged because they were the most important paintings. they were hanging on the wall, so when everything fell, the concrete fell on them and got damaged,\" he says.\u003cbr/\u003eSadly some of the paintings may never he recovered.\u003cbr/\u003eSome were completely destroyed, and others stolen in the chaotic aftermath of the earthquake.\u003cbr/\u003eA red alert was placed by UNESCO in the hope of tracing some of the stolen paintings, many of which Nader believes may be circulating on the black market.\u003cbr/\u003eTo safeguard the national cultural heritage, Nader supports the foundation of a National Museum. The family wants to help make that dream a reality.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We, the Naders, we said that, okay we're going to set aside about 500 paintings that will be part of that museum, so this will be part of our contribution. We'll take 500 paintings, the most important ones, and put them in a museum like that. We can preserve them from further earthquakes or for future generations because there are not much art left in Haiti,\" he explains.\u003cbr/\u003eNader welcomes the international relief efforts for the Haitian people, but he thinks more should be done to support the preservation of Haitian art.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Giving food, you eat it and that's it, but preserving the culture, I mean for 100 years my grandchildren, my children can see them. I think that is very important to see the past, to remember what was good in Haiti,\" Nader says. \u003cbr/\u003eMore than 10,000 of the paintings are kept in temporary storage at one of Nader's other galleries in Petionville, a suburb of the capital Port au Prince.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Here we have, I think in that pile, we must have about 500 damaged paintings. 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We need a structure in everything.\"  he says.\u003cbr/\u003eThe earthquake killed an estimated 300,000 people and left 1.5 million homeless.\u003cbr/\u003eMore than half a million people are believed to have fled devastated Port-au-Prince, with approximately 700,000 still living in makeshift shelters one year later.\u003cbr/\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='action-container flex justify-between'\u003e\n\u003cbutton aria-expanded='false' aria-label='Read more description' class='rp-full-description' type='button'\u003e\n\u003ci class='fai fa-solid fa-align-left'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cspan id='read_more'\u003eRead More\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/button\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-report'\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-labelledby='resource-details-heading' class='rp-info-section'\u003e\n\u003ch2 class='title' id='resource-details-heading'\u003eResource Details\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-resource-details 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