Czech watchdog slams cultural monuments program

Program aimed at restoring and improving some of the best-known Czech monuments falls foul of poor prepation and oversight

Politics & Policy|Society

Chris Johnstone | 02.02.2012

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Numerous aspects of the program to restore the National Museum (pictured) and a neighboring building came under fire from the watchdog

The Czech state’s spending watchdog, the Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ), has atacked poor preparation, mid-way changes, and insufficient ministry supervision of a program aimed at reconstructing some of the country’s high-profile cultural monuments used as museums, such as Prague’s National Museum and the country’s National Library sited in the historic Klementinium.

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