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The National Museum of Brazil was heavily damaged by a large fire which began about 19:30 local time (23:30 UTC) on 2 September 2018. [5] [6] [7] Although some items were saved, it is believed that 92.5% of its archive of 20 million items was destroyed in the fire as around 1.5 million items were stored in a separate building and were not damaged.
The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) was a museum focusing on nature, located in New Delhi, India. Established in 1972 and opened in 1978, the museum functioned under the Ministry of Environment and Forests of the Government of India . [ 1 ]
The Museum at Prairiefire is a museum in Overland Park, Kansas. The museum is a 42,000 square foot facility that opened in May 2014 and has received honors for its architecture style. [ 1 ] The museum carries displays created by other museums, such as American Museum of Natural History . [ 2 ]
The Getty Villa art museum is threatened by the flames of the wind-driven Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades, California, Jan. 7, 2025. A fast-moving brushfire in a Los Angeles suburb burned ...
On 30 November 2017 a fire damaged the Museum del hombre In Tegucigalpa, damaging the structure of the building. Several pieces were saved but suffered extensive damage. On 12 March 2019 there was a fire in the Museum of the Palace of Telecommunications in Tegucigalpa. 30% of the collection was destroyed and another part damaged.
Additionally, Mary Goddard, one of Tufts' earliest benefactors provided the museum with an array of coins, ethnological material, and stuffed birds. For Barnum, the museum was one of the first of many natural history collections which he provided to over 200 American universities. After Barnum's death in 1891, the museum continued to prosper.
Scientists at the Natural History Museum in London described how while some forests have adapted to fire as "important part of a forest ecosystem's natural cycle", the Amazon rainforest—which is "made up of lowland, wetland forests"—is "not well-equipped to deal with fire". Other Amazon basin ecosystems, like the Cerrado region, with its ...
The museum was heavily damaged by a large fire which began about 19:30 local time (23:30 UTC) on 2 September 2018. [ 63 ] [ 64 ] [ 65 ] Although some items were saved, it is believed that 92.5% of its archive of 20 million items was destroyed in the fire as around 1.5 million items were stored in a separate building and were not damaged.