Last September, a fire destroyed most of the 20 million items at the national museum in Rio de Janeiro.
In this Sept. 2, 2018 photo, flames engulf the 200-year-old National Museum of Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro. By Siobhán O'Grady Siobhán O'Grady WorldViews reporter Email Bio Follow April 17 at 8:12 AM Last September, Marcus Guidoti watched in horror as video emerged of Brazil’s National Museum engulfed in flames. As the fire spread, the Brazilian entomologist mapped what collections inside might be destroyed, hoping the rare lace bugs he was studying would be spared.
“I couldn’t help but think ‘Okay, this is going to be really bad, it’s going to be exactly like the museum,'" Guidoti said of Monday’s fire in Paris. It was painful “just watching how fragile we are.” In France, a human chain of emergency workers helped lessen the extent of the damage to Notre Dame. As The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, items rescued during the blaze include a crown of thorns that many Catholics believe Jesus once wore. But not everything was salvaged. The cathedral’s distinctive 19th-century spire dramatically collapsed during the height of the blaze on Monday. And much of the roof’s centuries-old wood was also destroyed.
But in Brazil, many saw the government’s budget cuts and negligence toward museum renovations as the reason for the fire that destroyed so much of the building and its collection. In the days after the blaze, clashes broke out between police and protesters calling on the government to take responsibility for the museum’s downfall.
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