There’s a fire in the brazilian National Museum, in Rio de Janeiro. The flames seem to have reached everything. The Museum turned 200 years old in 2018 and it had over 200 million items, including the oldest human skeleton ever found in the Americas (over 11.000 years old). The Museum was also the house of the royal family when they came to Brazil as a colony, and the residency of the emperial family after that. This week, on September 7th, we celebrate the brazilian independency, which was signed in that building. I can’t put in words how sad I am, or how huge this loss is for Brazil and for humanity. The government has been cutting funds from education and culture, which includes most of the money for the Museum’s maintance. This tragedy is very simbolic of the crisis Brazil is facing in many forms. Our history is burning to the ground, and this is no accident.
At the museum entrance:
“Everyone who passes by protect this slab, because it keeps a document that reveals the culture of a generation and a milestone in the history of people who knew how to build their own future.”
It’s heartbreaking.
no but seriously, it’s devastating
utter destruction..
the worst part? it was negligence on the part of several governments who failed to cover the costs for maintanence (which, if put into perspective, was minimal). it’s been all over the internet how the people who worked there had to resort to crowdfunding to keep things afloat. this was the result.
the museum had only been receiving 2.5% of the funding necessary for maintaining it, because of austerity policies.
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