This is the sort of thing you just don’t like to see:

Massive fire tears through Rio’s 200-year old National Museum

Twenty million items in the museum collection… and it’s a total loss. It’s the rough equivalent of the Smithsonian being reduced to ash.

If it turns out that some arsonist started this… hoo boy, not enough years in the calendar for a just sentence. if it turns out to be accidental… there is *still* room for a raft of trials. It seems the museum had been left in a bad way for some years, and didn’t even have a decent fire suppression system installed. If you have the funds to hold an Olympics, you have the funds to properly care for your national museums.