Saving Haiti's Priceless Artwork

Georges Nader, his family and staff, saved thousands of paintings from destruction in the rubble after his museum collapsed. Storage conditions are poor.

The devastated site of the Nader Museum in Port-au-Prince.

Secretary Wayne Clough photographs one of Petionville’s street-side art galleries.

At the objects lab in the Haitian Cultural Recover Center, Secretary Clough talks about fragments recovered from the destroyed and damaged murals of the Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral with Institute for Museum and Library Services Acting Director Marsha Semmel and President’s Committee member R

Haitian cultural leaders meet with Smithsonian officials and members of the President’s Committee for the Arts and the Humanities on the grounds of the Haitian Cultural Recovery Center.

The Centre d’Art was a leading institution in the development and dissemination of Haitian art. The three-story building collapsed in the earthquake and while thousands of paintings were saved, many still lay under the rubble.

A Haitian vendor sells bread amidst the earthquake rubble.