An entire museum burnt to the ground, complete with all of its exhibits: it is a nightmare that has become reality for the director of the Armando Museum in the Dutch town of Amersfoort. As if this wasn’t bad enough, works on loan from other museums and collectors have also gone up in flames. For Armando, the Dutch artist to whose work the museum is devoted, the fire is nothing short of a disaster.

Read full article (Radio Netherlands Worldwide, October 23, 2007)
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