Those who once worked in the National Museum in Brazilian city hope a new institution can emerge from the fire’s ashes
Since a devastating fire gutted Rio’s National Museum and consumed most of its collection of 20m items, archaeologist Murilo Bastos, 35, has lived an upside-down life.
He used to work in an office inside the colonial palace, once the home of the Portuguese royal family. Now he scours its charred interior for anything that survived the blaze.
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