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SPUP/SPPF museum to be rebuilt |15 October 2013



Preliminary work to demolish and rebuild the SPUP/SPPF museum on Francis Rachel Street has started and the time frame for the entire project to be completed is within four to five months.

Parti Lepep is asking members of the public to take precautions when walking by this area. However, safety measures are being taken to ensure that the project starts and completes without damaging anyone’s property taking into consideration that the museum is surrounded by other private buildings, and also that no passer-by is hurt.

It was inevitable that Parti Lepep approved the demolition of the museum, which is a national monument, after it was assessed that the building was in a bad shape, and it was also infested with rodents and other pests.

Built entirely of wood, the building which is over 100 years old had been closed for some time due to these reasons.

It will be rebuilt with the same architecture and research done has shown that when it was functioning as the SPUP/SPPF museum there had been some changes to the building when it was twice renovated, first in 1999 and in 2007. Now it will be brought back to its original architecture.
 
The construction of the museum will be mainly funded by the Party.
 
The building housing the museum was originally constructed in the 1800 as a private house. It was later rented by the forerunner of Parti Lepep, the Seychelles People’s United Party (SPUP) as office of its founder-leader, President France Albert Rene, where he also ran his law practice. It was later converted into a museum, which was officially opened by President Rene on June 2, 1984.

Demolition and construction work of the museum is being undertaken by Green Island Construction. Once completed the museum will be officially reopen on June 2, 2014 to coincide with the Party’s Golden Jubilee celebrations. It will be named SPUP/SPPF/Parti Lepep museum.

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