Officials in Brazil have blamed lack of funding for a huge fire that has ravaged the country's National Museum.

'We had to break down doors'

What has the reaction been?

Why the lack of funds?

A stark metaphor for a city in crisis

What did the museum contain?

Major fires at world's museums

• Jan 2018 - Much of Indonesia's Maritime Museum in Jakarta - which contained Dutch East Indian ship models and cannons - is gutted
• July 2017 - Hundreds of objects are destroyed - including three paintings on loan from the Louvre - at the Maritime Museum in Tatihou, France
• Apr 2016 - Rare specimens of flora and fauna are destroyed at the National Museum of Natural History in Delhi, India
• Oct 2014 - Cutty Sark - one of the world's last tea clippers to be built - is damaged by a fire in London for the second time in seven years
• July 1865 - New York City's Barnum's American Museum - whose collections included false artefacts like the "skeleton of a mermaid"- is burned to the ground