Vatican library to re-open after massive 3-year restoration

Old books have been displayed in a Apostolic Library of a Vatican yesterday, Sep 13, 2010, after a reopening. AFP picVATICAN CITY, Sept 14 The Vatican yesterday voiced it would re-open a living room to scholars upon Sep twenty after a large replacement which kept it close for three years.The 15th-century office building underwent renovations worth 25 million euros (RM100 million) as well as will re-open a doors to about 4,000 researchers as well as 20,000 visitors each year, Vatican librarian Raffaele Farina pronounced during a press conference.Because of a volume as well as distance of a projects, along with a noise they cause, you deemed it required as well as inevitable to close a library, Farina said.The replacement of a library, which binds more than 1.5 million books, included a designation of a complicated climatisation system to preserve older tomes, a converging of load-bearing walls as well as a designation of up-to-date confidence measures.Workers set up an electronic system to track all a books as well as all a people in a living room during any since time.About 150,000 of a librarys equipment have been manuscripts, including a many intemperate Bible in a world, flashy with 1.5kg of gold, according to Sever Voicu, a curator of Greek manuscripts.The library, along with Italian as well as international sponsors, financed a replacement works.Pope Benedict XVI followed closely as well as customarily longed for to be updated upon a restoration, Farina said, adding which he has promised to visit a library. AFP-Relaxnews

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