Brazil's National Museum is Destroyed in a Fire

[gleem]

Yesterday Brazil's National Museum 's contents where destroyed, artifacts of.Brazil's history gone.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/03/fire-engulfs-brazil-national-museum-rio

Apparently the government was lax in maintaining and upgrading the structure. It is hard to imagine what this means to a nation and its culture as well as to the scientific value of its contents.

 

[YoungPhysicist]

 

[BillTre]

Here is an update on this disaster.
Some of the museum artifacts are being recovered, but progress is slow.