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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 30 June 2025
1. Aerial of Brazil’s National Museum ++MUTE++
2. Museum doors opening as journalists and visitors enter
3. Officials posing for photos behind meteorite at museum’s entrance
4. Whale skeleton hanging from museum ceiling
5. Brazil’s Education Minister, Camilo Santana, taking selfie under whale skeleton
6. Santana touching meteorite
7. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Camilo Santana, Brazil’s Education Minister:
“Today’s event is a very strong symbol because this museum is the heritage of the Brazilian people. This place is 204 years old, it went through a fire in 2018, all Brazilians followed it. And since then it has been through a process of restoration.”
8. Various of exhibitions inside museum, people looking at artefacts
9. Meteorite at museum’s entrance
10. Officials posing for photos in front of museum
11. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Roberto Medronho, rector at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro:
“For us today, this is a very symbolic milestone marking the beginning of the reopening process. As the Minister rightly said, there is still some restoration work ahead, but today we already have a temporary exhibition for the public to get to know a bit about the work that is being done here.”
12. Visitor looking at exhibit
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ARCHIVE: Rio de Janeiro – 12 February 2019
13. Aerials of burned out Brazilian National Museum months after fire ++MUTE++
14. Interior of main hall with no roof following fire
15. Various of damaged building
16. Various of worker shovelling burned remains and pieces of clay into sifter
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ARCHIVE: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 2 September 2018
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17. Various of fire at Brazil’s National Museum, smoke rising
STORYLINE:
Brazil’s National Museum offered a first peek at its renovated building and collection on Monday, two days before it reopens for visitors and seven years after a huge fire destroyed it.
In a special guided tour for journalists, officials and the press were invited to see the progress of the restoration and the spaces that, for the first time since 2018, will soon be temporarily open to the public.
From July 2nd to August 31st, visitors will be able to explore three restored areas inside the São Cristóvão Palace, the heart of the National Museum, which is still under reconstruction.
The temporary reopening will allow the public to witness the restoration efforts up close, revisit the iconic Bendegó meteorite, and admire one of the museum’s latest additions, a 15.7-meter-long sperm whale skeleton now suspended under the building’s new skylight.
“This museum is the heritage of the Brazilian people. It went through a fire in 2018, all Brazilians followed it. And since then it has been a process of restoration,” said Brazil’s Education Minister, Camilo Santana.
The rector of the museum’s steward, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Roberto Medronho, reaffirmed its place as a symbol of science, culture, and resilience.
“There is still some restoration work ahead, but today we will already have a temporary exhibition for the public to get to know a bit of the work that is being done here,” said Medronho.
AP video shot by Mario Lobão
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