Among the many homes and buildings damaged by the Beirut explosion were the Sursock Palace and Museum. The 19th-century palace was once one of Beirut’s grandest town houses, and the mansion housing the museum was left to the city of Beirut in 1952
Main image: Damage to the Sursock Palace, opposite the Sursock Museum. Photograph: Haytham Al Achkar/Getty Images
Thu 13 Aug 2020 05.43 EDT Last modified on Thu 13 Aug 2020 08.30 EDT
The facade of the damaged museum with empty windows after their stained glass was smashed
Debris from the ceiling and walls covers the floor in the palace. After the country’s 1975 to 1990 civil war, the palace was restored in a 20-year project
Broken glass and window frames on the floor of the Sursock Palace. Built in the heart of historical Beirut on a hill overlooking the now-obliterated port, it was home to beautiful works of arts, Ottoman-era furniture, marble and paintings from Italy, from three generations of the Sursock family
