The El Paso Holocaust Museum & Study Center, which just celebrated its reopening in January six years after the original center was destroyed by an electrical fire, has suffered another setback, the El Paso Times is reporting.

Employees arrived this morning to find the museum had been flooded overnight, the Times reported.

None of the museum's Holocaust artifacts were destroyed, though, executive director Leslie Novick told the Times.

"Thankfully, our artifacts are high enough off the ground. The only things that are ruined are things that can be replaced: carpeting, computers and furniture," Novick told the paper. "The offices are what took the brunt of the damage."

El Paso Water Utilities crews were on scene this morning trying to fix the problem, and the cause of the flooding is still unknown, Novick said.

The museum, which has been booked with school and group tours for the next several months, has canceled all tours for the next two weeks, Novick told the Times.

The original museum was destroyed in an electrical fire in 2001, and the museum board had worked since then to find a new location and funds to build a new museum, which had its grand reopening on Jan. 29, the paper said. 

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