It’s been just over a month since an inferno blazed through Brazil’s 200-year-old National Museum, decimating the historic building and destroying the repository of South America’s cultural heritage housed within its walls. Workers tasked with ensuring the institution’s shelled-out husk is structurally sound began stabilizing the rubble almost two weeks ago but the exact fate of the museum’s more than 20 million artifacts will remain unclear until the building is deemed safe and salvage efforts can commence.
Brazil's National Museum Launches Rebuilding Efforts With Temporary Exhibition of Surviving Collection
Smithsonian Institution,
03 October 2018, Brazil
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