Artnet

After a Devastating Fire, Brazil’s Oldest Museum Calls for Donations—and Gets a Big One

After a 2018 fire destroyed some 85 percent of the renowned collection of the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, the museum has joined with a major fossil collector, a Rio-based nonprofit ...
The New Yorker

A Museum Fire, an Assassination Attempt, and Brazil’s Implosion

As this changing world’s repositories of our cultural, scientific, and historical legacies, museums are humanity’s treasure houses—almost sacred places. Americans are rightly proud of the Smithsonian, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Around 2,000 Artifacts Have Been Saved From the Ruins of Brazil’s National Museum Fire

The September 2018 blaze destroyed the majority of the Brazilian museum's more than 20 million artifacts Marcelo Fortes and João Pascoli/Museu Nacional Early last September, a devastating inferno ...