Fire destroys India's MNH

[wollastoni]

mashable.com/2016/04/26/india-national-museum-of-natural-history-fire/#5rDingqdkOqM

Will they ask now for private collectors to help them rebuild their reference collection ?... oh wait, there is no good private collections of Indian insects because they have banned amateur entomology there...

So sad

[nomihoudai]

Apr 26, 2016 13:46:36 GMT wollastoni said:

Will they ask now for private collectors to help them rebuild their reference collection ?

As if they ever had one... Indian museums are not comparable to any museum in Europe.

Anyway, the only reasonable thing to say is, that it is sad to see the loss of the museum. A museum is a place of education (except the one in Kentucky...) and it can only bring good to its surroundings.

Unfortunately, things like this can happen in India, due to their untrained workforce

[nomad]

Any scientific collection that is destroyed is a major loss.