Just found a Reuters report:-
One trapped in Italian building collapse
Sat 8 November, 2003 11:57

GENOA, Italy (Reuters) - Eight workers have been rescued and one was still trapped after part of a building collapsed in the northern Italian port city of Genoa, firefighters say.
The rescued workers suffered varying degrees of injuries, including concussion and broken limbs, but all were pulled out of the rubble safely.
Rescuers were still working to save a ninth worker trapped underneath the rubble.
A wing of the city's new three-storey museum of marine navigation collapsed at about 8:30 a.m. (7:30 a.m. British time) on Saturday morning when nine workers were on the site.
It was still not clear what caused the collapse.

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Here is the translation from the article published by " La Repubblica " ( the site of cnnitalia is no more active ).

" Genoa - an attic of one of the buildings of the Museum of the sea and the navigation in Genoa is collapsed. Under there were seven workers. Before they warned a scrunch, it comed down then of everything. Six workers had the opportunity to escape, the seventh one remained under the rubbles. The rescue parties worked the whole day under the rain to throw out he live. In evening the dogs of the officers of the fire individualized the body. A physician coved him in the practiced hole among the rubbles, to see if Albert Kolgjegja, 30 years, an Albanian worker, comed to Italy to work, was still alive. A weak hope. The man didn't answer to the jail cell neither to the calls. His body was inserted under two insoles of armed cement. One has been removed, for the other will want us other times. "And' presumable that he was dead", explained in evening the officers of the fire. At 3 o'clock, the confirmation: the man was extracted from the rubbles without life.
And' by now night in Genoa. The rescuers digged to the light of the photoelectric ones under the rain. The workers, Albanian and Sicilians, worked for a firm of subcontract, they also went to the yard on Saturday, to get more money. They had to disarm an insole of cement armed with an old building in restructuring. But the insole collapsed, overwhelming those underlying. The steel scaffolding that supported part of the construction came down. " The insoles of cement have surrendered, dragging behind everything ", as declared by the provincial commander of the officers of the fire, David Meta.
The proxy in Genoa opened an investigation about the reasons of the collapse of part of the building. "A due action" as explained by the the mayor Giuseppe Pericu during a press conference with Renato Picco late afternoon, president of the Porto Antico Spa, the society in charge for the jobs within the Genoa European Capital of the Culture 2004 celebrations.
The mayor of Genoa and the societies that have contracted the job explained that it was everything to regulate. But something hadn't worked as it owed. Everything, not all the workers were regular. Then someone thought that the cement was not ready to be freed from the steel cages, that the jobs were late and that, really for this, the insoles would have been freed before.
The answer of the labor union was clear: On Monday, at Genoa, the workers will stop for eight hours, to report that in the housebuilding the risk to die are still very high. Hard words, those pronounced by the syndicalists in front of the rubbles of the east wing of the building Museum of the sea and the navigation. The first accused, in this tragedy it is, according to the syndicalists, the hurry: other problems are the narrow times of the delivery of the work. The workers work without the necessary protections, on hard turns. Saturday in the housebuilding isn't generally a day of work, but at Genoa that team of seven workers were at work, because the palace had to be completed in time for Genoa 2004, the year in which the ligurian chief town will be the European capital of the culture. The labor union repeats that it will be strike because "safety hasn't to be an optional in the building yards."
And all the workers of the yards of the Port of Genoa on Monday will not work. It takes reflection, it takes initiative, above all us take the correct times: "the time to work. Because also a possible acceleration of the jobs - as said by the labor unions of category - it doesn't have to want to say that somebody could also die."
The instants before the collapse were reconstructed by Nicolò
Flagiello, 32 years, of Bagheria (Palermo), in strength in the yard from April, the most serious wounded. He remembered: "While we were disarming the attic, I have felt a boato and then everything there is fallen I set. And' then that I have thought about dying and not to see my mother anymore my relatives. It needs to ask the motives for this disaster to the engineers - he added - because we performed the jobs according to the sketches and the programmed times."
The other wounded still in the hospital it is Skenger Ndoy, 42 years, Albanian, that has brought serious fractures to a hand. Before entering operating room, in a difficult Italian, he succeeded only in explaining: "We have felt a strong noise and we have escaped. I immediately am run away and I have also tried to stretch me to earth. We were six, seven people."
The other two saved workers are Giovanni Calvo, 41 years, of Pozzallo (Ragusa), cured and already discharged from the hospital with 15 days of prognosis and an Albanian, whose generalities are not notes yet, in turn low. Of the five workers remained under the rubbles three are Albanian. One, won't make it. Albert Kolgjegja, 30 years, native of Lura, from three years in Genoa. Its body without life was recovered to late night.
It had a fiancée, as told by his cousin Albert; he has come to Italy to work. Was he inserted in a firm? Was he to job contract? Was it to the black? Albert didnn't answer, he cried and it said "left me alone". There is someone whom says that the Albanian workers earn only 6 Euro each day. But nobody confirms, nobody denies.


(November 8 th 2003)

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Genoa's new Museum of the Sea
4/8/2004
Genoa's new Museum of the Sea, one of the largest maritime museums in Europe, opened last week in the newly converted Galata building in the city-centre harbour. The five storey venue features three floors of permanent exhibits documenting the city's maritime history since Columbus, a fourth
floor for travelling shows and an observatory gallery.

The inaugural guest show is a Transatlantic Liner exhibition, sponsored by Costa Crociere, boasting over 50 years of maritime tradition, together with Fincantieri, Assagenti and Fondazione Ansaldo, which lasts until January 9.
Various maritime museums, mainly from Europe, have worked together to build the collection. Participants include the National Maritime Museum of Greenwich, the Imperial War Museum of London, the Museum fuer Hamburgische Geschichte, the Association French Line of Le Havre, the Ocean Liner Museum of New York and the National Museum of Science and Technology of Milan.

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Originally posted by Matts:
Genoa's new Museum of the Sea, one of the largest maritime museums in Europe...

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I think the Greenwich National Maritime Museum is still THE biggest?

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Originally posted by sslewis:
Interesting Malcom!
How do you qualify a museum size?

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