Forgot the link to the report...
There is a series of seek-and-find video games called “Big City Adventures”. One of the cities they featured was Rio, and the National Museum was one of the venues.
A tragic loss.
That’s heartbreaking. We live in a world where there is so much ignorance of history. When I visit a new place, I always like to visit the local history museum...
What a tragedy. The world has lost so much history in the last few years, including Brazil, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
The West's "ill gotten gains" are more safely preserved than they would have been in their countries of origin.
What a surprise—cultural treasures neglected and unprotected in a slovenly third world country. You could knock me over with at feather! </sarc>
The place was totally consumed which leads me to believe whatever they had wasn't adequate.
Until a report comes out we won't know what happened.
Were there sprinklers? How quickly was it reported? Were the alarms working? Were there alarms? Was it arson and someone spread an accelerant? How quickly did the firefighters get there? How well trained are they? Did they have adequate equipment to fight the fire?
This too shall pass.
You can’t fake civilization. Eventually nature will pull you back to your level of existence. Unfortunately, every country now has a population too dumb to maintain anything. It is just a mater of time.
Civilization is not PC.
Evidently the building housed a 5.5 ton meteorite.
I’m guessing it survived the fire.
very, very sad.
Blame it on Rio
They can get replacements on Amazon
Tragic!
Wonder how many forgeries went up in smoke.
I’m surprised the Clintons didn’t take this approach with the National Archive rather that having Sandy Burgler fill his shorts with documents various times.