On Sunday evening, September 2, 2018, the Brazilian National Museum was closed in Rio de Janeiro, and its vertebra was empty while electricity flowed through wires connected to computers and storage rooms that include three connected air conditioning units, incorrect One of the units most likely received a sudden increase in electricity that it could not bear, this led to the outbreak of fire in the burden system, the smoke detection system in the museum was not seized, so the employees rushed to the building and appealed to the firefighters to allow them to enter and save something – anything, within hours The entire new classic building, which was built in the early nineteenth century.
Small errors led to a huge fire that destroyed the most famous museum of natural history in Latin America and most of the 20 million artifacts, a lot of lost or severely damaged it could not be compensated: an ancient Egyptian priest’s mummy, a fossilized turtle of 110 million years as well as the oldest known human residue In Latin America.
The fire also obliterated a huge collection of artifacts representing the cultural history of the indigenous population in Brazil.
Masks, vases, weapons, mortars, and feathered feathers and feathered heads that date back to no less than a century according to the New York Times.
The researchers worked to recover the ashes they managed, surprisingly, that some ceramic vases retained their original paint, and a sculpture was found for almost healthy cargly.
Joao Pacico de Oliveira, head of the Museum’s Ethnography Department, says that most of the waste “was shrapnel that the people who classified it” were no longer recognized. ” He said: “For them, these things were much more than just a substance. ” She was carrying the power of the people who made the fire was “a burning of national memory. ”
Museum fire
Museum burning.
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