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Rebuilding Empire 5.5 million cheaper than feared

370 million cost to renovate the Rijksmuseum. All but a tonne. 5.5 million less than the last estimate from 2010. Which again was almost quadruple the original budget, which still assumed 134 million. But that was before the crisis about those stairs and the bicycle route, and before all kinds of construction companies went bankrupt, and before the whole thing was in danger of collapsing anyway.

Happy me? Of course. Would have been awkward if the Rijksmuseum had become even more expensive ...

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370 million cost to renovate the Rijksmuseum. All but a tonne. 5.5 million less than the last estimate from 2010. Which again was almost quadruple the original budget, which still assumed 134 million. But that was before the crisis about those stairs and the bicycle route, and before all kinds of construction companies went bankrupt, and before the whole thing was in danger of collapsing anyway.

Happy me? Of course. Would have been awkward if the Rijksmuseum had become even more expensive ...

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