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That's absolutely horrifying. I can't believe the scale.

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On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Paolo Cocco <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/03/blaze-leaves-naples-science-museum-in-ashes.html
>
> A fire broke out on Monday night at Città della Scienza, an  interactive
> science museum and conference centre in Naples, Italy, destroying most of
> the complex.
>
> No injuries were reported, but the damage was said to be
> devastating<
> http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/photostory/primopiano/2013/03/04/FOTO-Citta-scienza-fiamme_8347174.html
> >.
> The fire broke out at around 9:30 p.m. local time and raged on most of the
> night before firefighters finally managed to stop it.
>
> Four of the five halls that make up the 12,000-square-metre museum, built
> on a former industrial site, were destroyed by the fire. Only one hall used
> as a theatre and conference centre withstood the flames.
>
> “The damage is immense,” the museum’s director, Luigi Amodio, told
> *Nature*.
> “The interactive scientific museum has been entirely destroyed — both the
> buildings and the exhibits. The fire broke out last night and propagated
> very quickly. We are waiting for the results of the investigation to
> understand what caused it.”
>
> Investigators are considering both the possibility of an accident and that
> of arson. The mayor of Naples, Luigi De Magistris, told the Italian news
> agency ANSA<
> http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/cronaca/2013/03/04/fiamme-Citta-scienza-Napoli-danni-ingenti_8346828.html
> >that
> he thinks there is “a criminal hand” behind the fire. “I don’t
> know what information he has,” says Amodio. “I prefer to wait to hear what
> the investigators say.”
>
> With about 160 employees and averaging 350,000 visitors a year, the Città
> della Scienza (City of Science) has been Italy’s largest science centre,
> modelled after Paris’s Cité des Sciences. It comprised a planetary, a
> collection of interactive scientific exhibits and temporary exhibitions.
>
> The project began in the 1990s as part of the reclamation and redevelopment
> of a former steel factory in the western part of Naples, and the centre has
> been open to the public since 2001.
>
> In recent years, the museum had been facing funding problems, making it
> increasingly difficult for it to stay in operation. Amodio says that he and
> the rest of the staff hope to rebuild the museum, either on the same site
> or in a nearby building. “We want to continue our work, but we’ll have to
> see where and when.”
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