"Our Picasso will be changed by its journey to Ramallah..."

"The academy quoted Charles Esche, director of the Van Abbe Museum, as saying it was a historic event not only for the Palestinians.

"Our Picasso will be changed by its journey to Ramallah, it will take on extra meaning and the story will remain a part of the history of the painting from this moment on," it said.

"It feels like we are constructing new histories with such a project as well as preserving old ones," it added."

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Ramallah museum to show Picasso for first time

Foreign staff hang Picasso's 1943 canvas "Buste de Femme", which was lent by The Van Abbe museum in Eindhoven, Netherlands to the Palestinian Art Academy museum in Ramallah. The Ramallah art museum has become the first in the West Bank to take delivery of an artwork by Picasso, which will go on view to the public for a month, beginning on Friday (AFP/Abbas Momani)