Fire destroys priceless artefacts at Brazil's National Museum

Brazil’s oldest and most important scientific museum was gutted by fire on Sunday, destroying within hours priceless scientific artefacts and collections gathered since the National Museum was founded in 1818.

[enlightenphase]

How dumb can the Brazilian Government be... No funding

[previouslyachimp]

How awful, you would think such places would have fail-safe fire prevention systems, I great tragedy! :(

[dafttool]

A national tragedy, ... but that meteorite should be fine if they can fish it out of the rubble. The worse loss are the indigenous artifacts

[somecuriosities]

What a loss not only to Brazil but to all humanity 😕

[arthurmartins]

i feel ashamed to be a brazillian.
its hard to respect a country that doesnt respect its own history.

[JStrepp]

I'll ask, what were they about to reveal about the ever unfolding information about our past?

[tylerufen]

Dear God, that's a terrible tragedy.... 😦😧☹️

[billbohrd]

They are more interested by stupid ball games.

[ddelv]

What a horrible tragedy. But all of Ukraine's ancient artifacts are being destroyed as I write this... 😭😭😭

[SOULO-OFFICAL]

Thats just sad thousandths of years of many peoples history gone in a tragic fire

[thisismenotu]

Haven't you heard, Fire was Deliberate... Why???

[jeanetteyork]

How sad...what a loss to science and knowledge 😒

[professorateu]

It's not the first and won't be the last museum that we lose in this country, sadly. People here seems to hate History and, obviously, they are stuck to it in a loop.