Brazil’s National Museum launches first printed catalog of rare works
Brazil’s National Museum launched this week the first printed catalog of its collection of rare works. Although about 85% of the museum's 20,000 items were destroyed by a major fire occurred in September 2018, institution's director Alexander Kellner told Agência Brasil the rare works had been safely removed from the museum prior to the fire that consumed the Imperial Palace, located in Quinta da Boa Vista Municipal Park, in Rio de Janeiro."Fortunately, due to our policy of relocating collections from the São Cristóvão Palace, we were able to move our library," said the director, adding that other collections were also safely stored off-site.The Rare Works Catalog of the National Museum can be downloaded for free at https://pantheon.ufrj.br since its release on April 13, in addition to...