
Over a decade since its launch and seven years past the originally scheduled opening, the museum extension project of St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta remains unfinished, with no clear indication of when the doors will finally open to the public. The project, once touted as a flagship cultural investment to accompany Valletta’s designation as the European Capital of Culture in 2018, has instead become emblematic of prolonged administrative stagnation, cost overruns, and questionable project management....
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