The National Museum, an institution founded by D. João VI in 1818, which housed about 20 million pieces of different eras, was devastated by a Fire on September 2, 2018 which destroyed about 85% of one of the most important collections in Latin America.
The National Museum of Brazil, one of the main scientific and cultural references of Latin America, will reopen the doors to the public on Wednesday, temporary and temporary, seven years after the fire that destroyed much of the collection.
For the first time since the 2018 incident, the public You can visit three rooms Restored from the Museum at the São Cristóvão Palace in Rio de Janeiro.
The Minister of State of Education, Camilo Santana, participated was present at the early opening ceremony of the exhibition “Between Giants: an experience in the National Museum”.
The public will have the opportunity to see the progress in the palace recoveryreview the Bendegó meteorite – the largest ever discovered in Brazil – and know the skeletona recent acquisition of the institution, 15.7 meters long, exposed in the new sky of the building.
The exhibition also includes restored marble sculpturesworks by indigenous artist Gustavo Caboco and a room dedicated to the history and reconstruction of the museum.
The plan of those responsible for the reconstruction is that the museum reopens with about 10,000 exposed pieces In an area between 6,000 and 7,000 square meters, twice what was exposed before the fire and in a twice larger space.
Fire
The National Museum, an institution founded by D. João VI in 1818, which housed about 20 million pieces of different eras, was devastated by a Fire on September 2, 2018 which destroyed about 85% of one of the most important collections in Latin America.
The historic building, which initially served as an imperial palace of Brazil, housed the Latin America’s largest natural history museum and one of the five largest in the world of the genre.
The goal is to finish the works and reopen the museum to the public by 2026.
