incredibly sad video from inside Brazil's gutted National Museum — only the meteorites withstood the fire pic.twitter.com/6BoTJqanSd— Matthew Champion (@matthewchampion) September 4, 2018
Zero Hedge: Stunning Footage Inside Brazil's Fire-Gutted National Museum
It contained centuries-old priceless artifacts charting the history of an entire country and people. The National Museum of Brazil was established in 1818 under King John VI of Portugal and contained over 20 million exhibits and artifacts, but was consumed completely by a devastating fire on Sunday night after it closed for the day.
Now Brazilians are raging at their government's failure to take simple preventative measures that could have saved the museum after its central building caught fire, quickly engulfing side buildings, which firefighters were helpless to do much about. There wasn't even so much as a working fire suppression system, considered standard for most any national antiquities museum across the globe, according to local reports.
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WNU Editor: No problem to spend billions on hosting the 2016 Olympic Games .... or billions on monster soccer stadiums. But to spend a few million to renovate and install an adequate fire suppression system for the country's only national museum that holds millions of artifacts that are priceless .... it appears that in Brazil, you are asking too much.
Update: This is a partial list of what was lost .... Go deeper: The artifacts destroyed by Brazil's museum fire (Axios).
This is a sad story.... I regret reading it.
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The Brazilians, both deceased and living, have my deepest sympathies on this terrible day of immeasurable loss.
I wonder how many warnings were ignored this time?