Luiz Duarte, one of the museum’s vice-directors, said politicians were to blame for failing to support the museum and letting it deteriorate. No state ministers appeared at its 200th birthday celebrations in June.
a “tragedy [that] could have been avoided”, but said the problems of the museum, which is part of the Federal University (UFRJ), had been “piling up over time”.
He tweeted: “They didn’t start this year. In 2015, for example, it was closed for lack of resources for its maintenance.
He tweeted: “They didn’t start this year. In 2015, for example, it was closed for lack of resources for its maintenance.