While the precise amount stored "is tricky to establish" at this point, the staff was inspired by the finds, its leader, archeologist Claudia Carvalho, advised reporters on Tuesday.
The museum's director, Alexander Kellner, stated 2,000 presents had been recovered and registered, but explained many have been fragments of 1 item.
"Thanks to this success, we've an agreeable problem: we desire quite a bit extra boxes simply due to the fact we do not have quite a bit of space" to shop the finds, Kellner said.
He further that the museum, observed in a park in northern Rio de Janeiro, quickly deliberate to show the recovered artifacts.
The National Museum fire on September 2, 2018 burnt up quite a bit of the collection, dealing a tricky blow to the vital show off of Brazil's anthropological heritage and history.
Since then, dozens of anthropologists, archeologists and paleontologists have spent nine hours a day, six days every week combing by way of the ashes and charred layout of what used to be an imperial palace. The facade nonetheless stands, although all that was internal and most of its roof have been destroyed.
Among the recovered relics are fragments of "Luzia" -- the fossilized, 12,000-year-old stays of a human seen the centerpiece of the musuem's collection.
There can also be a five-ton meteorite referred to as Bendego which survived the blaze. And a few fragments of a dinosaur, Maxakalisaurus topai.
Carvalho admitted, though, that a couple of collections have been totally lost, amongst them one which catalogued five million insects. What remained was capable to withstand the hearth to a few degree.
"We nonetheless have got to overview that. There are collections of issues we nonetheless do not realize how quite a bit we might be capable to recover," she said.
The painstaking seek and restoration activity is anticipated to keep during this year. At the similar time, work is shifting ahead to rebuild the museum building.
Brazilian police are nonetheless investigating the reasons of the fire.