on the roof to the lower left there? Either way, it looks like an interesting structure. Best guess it's a former imperial estate re-purposed as a museum. I'm sort of curious how well the property was being maintained.
From the last paragraph...
The historical building also once served as the residence for the Portuguese Royal Family. The museum had suffered from years of neglect under numerous governments, the institution's vice-director the Globo TV network on Sunday night. 'We never got anything from the federal government,' said the official, Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte. 'We recently finalized an agreement with (state-run development bank) BNDES for a massive investment, so that we could finally restore the palace and, ironically, we had planned on a new fire prevention system.'
HAH!
I wouldn't be surprised if the loan is inflated to demolish the structure and build something entirely new to help sweep away more evidence of the imperial past.
In conjunction with the largest heist in history. Imagine what any of that would now go for to some black market collector? It's either a great tragedy or a great con.
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