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60 Minutes

2/28/2016: A Monumental Project, Saving History, God's Architect

60 Minutes

CBS News

Cbs, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, News

42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Scott Pelley reports on the making of a Smithsonian museum dedicated to African-American history and culture. Morley Safer takes a look at how the fashion business is rescuing Italy's most iconic sites, such as The Colosseum in Rome. Lara Logan brings listeners to the Sagrada Familia, a church in Spain that has become the longest running architectural project on Earth. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight on 60 Minutes Presents, Preserving the Past.

0:07.7

The $540 million National Museum of African American History and Culture is rising on the national mall.

0:16.8

Its complexion rendered in shades of bronze, a building of color against history's white marble.

0:25.4

This is not the museum of tragedy. It is not the museum of difficult moments.

0:30.4

It is the museum that says, here is a balanced history of America that allows us to cry and smile.

0:42.3

Italy is home to two-thirds of the world's cultural treasures.

0:47.6

Trouble is, the country's too broke to keep its historic ruins, churches, and monuments

0:52.8

from crumbling to dust. But now some of its most treasured

0:57.5

and endangered landmarks are being saved, not by the government, but by a more respected

1:03.3

Italian institution. The fashion business. There is a very famous Kennedy speech, no?

1:12.3

What is possible for us to do for our country?

1:15.7

We need to do now.

1:20.6

When Pope Benedict the 16th came to the Sagrada Familiar,

1:25.2

he consecrated the church as a basilica.

1:32.0

Not since 1883, when it was first envisioned by Anthony Gowdy, had it been seen in all its glory.

1:41.3

He wanted to write the history of the whole of the Catholic faith in one building.

1:45.7

I mean, how crazy and how extraordinary and how ambitious that idea is.

1:54.9

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