Massive
fire destroys India's National Museum of
Natural History
India’s
National Museum of
Natural History has been gutted by an early morning
fire in central Delhi. The
fire broke out on the top floor of the FICCI building in which it is housed, gutting parts of the museum. Most of its valuable artefacts, including a di**saur fossil, are believed to have been
lost.
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The 38-year-old
Museum focused on India’s flora and fauna, conservation and environmental education, and was especially popular with school children.
The
Museum had been conceptualised by former prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1972, the 25th anniversary of India’s independence. Its collection included a 160 million-year-old fossil bone of a sauropod, bird eggs, preserved butterflies, stuffed animals and birds, herpetological specimens and dioramas.
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