Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-26199810-20171119015458/@comment-26360563-20180914204119

CactusKing wrote: It was entirely the Brazilian governments fault. The community was pretty much the only thing keeping the museum open, it was barely funded enough to keep its lights on. Yeah, Brazil is in a deep crisis just a few year after years of intense economical growth. The government still had enough money to keep the museum, but it was forgotten. I don't remember who, but someone important said like 15 years ago that the museum were going to be on fire someday. He was right.

The museum had a very cheap entrance and it was, for some people, one of the few places they had contact with science and history, and it was not in the rich side of Rio (aka Zona Sul and the Center)