Novelist Paulo Coelho on Brazil's National Museum fire: 'The country is in tears'

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Novelist Paulo Coelho on Brazil's National Museum fire: 'The country is in tears'

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/sep/04/paulo-coelho-rio-brazil-national-museum-fire-neglected-history
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  • curmudgeonesscurmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 3,218
    This is a terrible loss.
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 40,593
    What a shame that it was a total loss and what a shame that it had so few visitors. 
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  • AnnafalkAnnafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    This was sad, I heard about it on the radio. Was it true, they didn't have a sprinkler system?
  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    My Brazilian brother of another mother said they hadn't been keeping up maintenance and the Louvre had more Brazilian visitors than the National Museum.

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  • Meltdown99Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    To bad they didn't have better fire protection ... Brazil is a not a rich country.
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