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Brazil suffers loss as 200-Year-Old National Museum goes up in Flames
Brazil’s national museum, it’s oldest and most historical, has gone up in flames.
According to Guardian, the fire started Sunday night, while it was closed to the public, and the loss suffered has been described as “incalculable.”
Collections of over a 100 years have been lost in the fire, one of the museum’s vice directors Cristiana Serejo, has said.
It was the biggest natural history museum in Latin America. We have invaluable collections. Collections that are over 100 years old.
Incunabula@incunabulaThis was Rio’s Museu Nacional before tonight’s fire. Reports are that it was entirely destroyed in little more than an hour. That something like this could happen to a building of this importance is a staggering institutional and governance failure.
Its collections include a meteorite found in 1784 and “Luzia,” a 12,000-year-old skeleton, both of which has been lost in the fire.
It’s unclear how the fire started, and Michel Temer, the country’s president, tweeted:
Today is a tragic day for the museology of our country. Two hundred years of work research and knowledge were lost.
Michel Temer✔@MichelTemer
Incalculável para o Brasil a perda do acervo do Museu Nacional. Foram perdidos 200 anos de trabalho, pesquisa e conhecimento. O valor p/ nossa história não se pode mensurar, pelos danos ao prédio que abrigou a família real durante o Império. É um dia triste para todos brasileiros
There have been no reports of injuries or deaths as the fire occurred while the museum was closed.
See a clip of the fire incident:
Rachel Silva@RebechellBrazil’s National Museum. My brother sent me this
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