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Object Impermanence [1]

Poetry [2]
9.11.18

Earlier this month a fire blazed through the National Museum of Brazil, endangering and destroying a significant portion of the collection of over twenty million artifacts carefully accumulated since the museum’s founding in 1818. One of the museum’s curators reported that the entire entomology [3] and arachnology collections, most of the mollusk [4] collection, and around seven hundred Egyptian [5] artifacts were destroyed. Browse through some of the photos of the museum’s collections, and choosing one object, write a poem that considers the loss of this irreplaceable artifact. You might decide to research more into its history, or simply let your imagination lead the way.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/object_impermanence [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/dir/exposicoes/zoologia/zoo_invertebrados/acervo/zoo_entomologia/index.html [4] http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/dir/exposicoes/zoologia/zoo_invertebrados/zoo_moluscos/index.html [5] http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/dir/exposicoes/arqueologia/egito-antigo/index.html