The Brazilian Federal Police officially announced the investigation report of the 2018 National Museum of Brazil fire to the outside world on the 6th. The survey results show that the fire that caused the National Museum of Brazil fire on September 2, 2018 was not a human factor, but a fire caused by the air conditioner in the exhibition hall that was out of repair for a long time and was short-circuited.
During the investigation, the crime expert group confirmed that the initial fire point was at an air-conditioning hanger at the main entrance of the first floor of the museum, and then spread to the entire museum building. The National Museum, which once owned more than 20 million collections, collapsed in the fire, and only 72 collections were rescued from the collapsed building afterwards.
According to the investigation, in August 2015, the fire department conducted a safety inspection of the National Museum, but the inspection was not completed and no final fire detection report was formed.
Before the fire, the Brazilian National Museum in Rio de Janeiro was the official residence of the Portuguese and Brazilian royal families in Brazil. It was managed by the Federal University of Rio. In addition to being a scientific research institution, it was also a natural history museum. The history of reaching Brazil until the founding of the Republic. In June 2018, the museum held a commemorative event to mark the 200th anniversary of its establishment. (Taiwan reporter Tang Ye)