The Italian Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, has announced that state museums and archaeological sites across Italy will be donating the proceeds of all ticket sales on Sunday 28 August to help rescue efforts in the regions in central Italy affected by Wednesday’s earthquake. The culture minister Dario Franceschini urged Italians to “go to museums in a sign of solidarity with the populations involved in last night’s earthquake”.

In a press conference yesterday, the minister urged Italians to go to museums on Sunday in “solidarity” with the affected population, reports La Repubblica......Continue Reading

Top image: The 16th-century St. Augustin church in Amatrice, central Italy, was partially destroyed by the earthquake that struck just after 3.30am on 24 August. (Image: AP Photo/Emilio Fraile)

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