When fire ravaged the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, most of the collection’s 20 million objects were destroyed. A hall that held the 12,000-year-old skeletal remains of a woman known as Luzia, the oldest human remains found in the Americas, is gone. Years of scientific research vanished.

The fire has been blamed on neglect by a corrupt Brazilian government that slashed museum administrators’ budgets and dawdled at installing a fire-suppression system.



Have you ever visited the museum? Please share with us your photos and videos from past trips, so that we may see what has been lost in the destruction. We plan on publishing a selection of them.