Photo essay: Artists struggle to restore paintings, save Haiti museum after 2010 earthquake
Photo essay: Artists struggle to restore paintings, save Haiti museum after 2010 earthquake.
Ernst Jeudy restores a painting by Haitian artist Edouard Duval Carrie at Musée d'Art du Collège Saint Pierre, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Paintings in storage at Musée d'Art du Collège Saint Pierre, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, nearly a decade after a magnitude 7.0 quake killed an estimated 300,000 people. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Clautaire Leveille and a worker roll up an quake-damaged painting by Haitian artist Jean-Claude Toussaint at Musée d'Art du Collège Saint Pierre, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Marc Gerard Estime restores a painting by Edouard Duval Carrie. While life has begun anew for much of Haiti after the quake, the museum has been shut for nine years. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
A detail of the quake-damaged painting by Haitian artist Robert Saint Bruce, being renovated by Franck Louissaint at Musée d'Art du Collège Saint Pierre, in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
A painting damaged in the 2010 earthquake. The museum needs $50,000 to reopen, as most of its collection was extensively damaged in the quake. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Clautaire Leveille walks inside the quake-damaged Musée d'Art du Collège Saint Pierre, in Port-au-Prince. The 2010 quake devastated many museums and galleries across Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Paintings damaged by the 2010 earthquake at Musée d'Art du Collège Saint Pierre. The museum recently opened a tiny room to display a handful of paintings. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Berthony Vilbrun points at a painting damaged during the earthquake 2010 at Musée d'Art du Collège Saint Pierre. The Smithsonian helped the museum restore some paintings. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Marc Gerard Estime restores a painting by Edouard Duval Carrie that was damaged in the 2010 earthquake at Musée d'Art du Collège Saint Pierre, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Ernst Jeudy restores a painting by Haitian artist Edouard Duval Carrie along with Franck Louissaint and Marc Gerard Estime at Musée d'Art du Collège Saint Pierre, in Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Franck Louissaint works on the painstaking renovation of a painting by Haitian artist Robert Saint Bruce at the Musée d'Art du Collège Saint Pierre. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Franck Louissaint works on the renovation of a quake-damaged painting by Haitian artist Robert Saint Bruce at Musée d'Art du Collège Saint Pierre, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
