Fire at the National Museum of Brazil

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"A massive fire tore through a 200-year-old museum in Rio de Janeiro late Sunday, lighting up the night and sending large plumes of smoke into the air. Firefighters worked to put out the blaze at the esteemed National Museum in northern Rio, which houses artifacts from Egypt, Greco-Roman art and some of the first fossils found in Brazil.

In a statement, President Michel Temer [of Brazil] said it was 'a sad day for all Brazilians.'

'Two hundred years of work, investigation and knowledge have been lost,' said Temer. 'The value of our history cannot be measured by the damage to the building.'

According to the museum's website, it has more than 20,000 items related to the history of Brazil and other countries, and that many of its collections came from members of Brazil's royal family.

Robadey [spokesman for the local fire department] said firefighters got off to a slow start because the two fire hydrants closest to the museum were not functioning. Instead, trucks had to be sent to get water from a nearby lake.

Connected to the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the museum has expositions that include anthropology, archaeology and paleontology, among others.

The vice director of the museum, Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte, told Globo News the museum suffered chronic underfunding.

'Everybody wants to be supportive now. We never had adequate support,' he said. He called it a 'cultural tragedy.'"

Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fire-national-museum-brazil-rio-de-janeiro-today-2018-09-02/

 

[Robagaga 9,345]

So sad...

so much history lost 

[RahrahWitch 6,985]

That's so sad..

Reminds me of the Library of Alexandria, I get mad every time i think about it.

[VoldeLorde2 8,389]

That is so tragic. I hope no one was hurt 

It's sad that artifacts like that can't be replaced. Once it's gone, it's gone forever. 

[Andreu 37,216]

Oh my god i have just saw a report on this and

 

I can’t 

 

fires at a forest make me very sad, but at a museum

 

i cant

 

 

[Andreu 37,216]

1 minute ago, RahrahWitch said:

That's so sad..

Reminds me of the Library of Alexandria, I get mad every time i think about it.

I have never thought about the Library of Alexandria this way, amd now I’m mad as well nnnn

[RahrahWitch 6,985]

Just now, Andreu said:

I have never thought about the Library of Alexandria this way, amd now I’m mad as well nnnn

I'm so sorry 

[Andreu 37,216]

This will never happen okay, but I just imagined 

 

IMAGINE IF THIS HAPPENED IN THE LOUVRE

 

 

[Sneaky Oliver 22,973]

Good news!! The museum had 3D “backups” of several items so they may replace the lost pieces for 3D-printed ones 

Yay Technology 

[Morphine Prince 109,650]

I was so upset when I saw this earlier. What a loss. 

[RAMROD 117,008]

All those archive lost. Unfortunate.