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The Art Newspaper1y
British Museum to digitise collection as one million objects are found to be undocumented
In a separate British Museum statement yesterday ... Jones added: “We cannot and must not assume that the security of the collection, in a wider sense, can be achieved simply by locking ...
The Art Newspaper1y
How the Townley collection became the British Museum’s ‘forgotten’ marbles
Within a decade, his collection was one of London’s main attractions, filling the deficiency in the British Museum’s holdings. He showed it by appointment in his house-museum in Park Street ...
The Harvard Crimson1y
The British Museum: A Rogue Curator and a Long History of Theft
By digitizing their entire collection, the British Museum is diving deep into the process of documenting a fraught history of acquisition. Even one of its own curators seemed to believe some of ...
Al Jazeera English1y
Where do the items in the British Museum come from?
A spokesperson from the museum said, “The British Museum fully acknowledges the complex histories of objects within the collection and recognises our responsibility to engage audiences about ...
Rolling Stone1y
Stop Thief! Why the British Museum Failed To Protect Its Collection, and How Decolonization Can Help
Stop Thief! Am I referring to the curator who allegedly stole a staggering 2,000 treasures from the British Museum collection over the last 30 years or the monumentally privileged white men who ...
The New York Times1y
What a Scandal at the British Museum Reveals
Indeed, the British Museum thefts might have gone unnoticed if not for an antiquities dealer who was browsing eBay and recognized an ancient Roman cameo as one from the museum’s collection.
ABC News1y
British Museum seeks public help in finding stolen artifacts
The British Museum has issued a plea to the public to assist in the recovery of ancient artifacts reported stolen or missing from its collection. The museum -- which announced on Aug. 16 that the ...
CBS News1y
British Museum faces probe over handling of tabots, sacred Ethiopian artifacts held 150 years out of view
London — London's renowned British Museum is facing an investigation by the United Kingdom's information watchdog over claims that it has not been transparent about a collection of sacred ...
The Debate: Should the British Museum return the Elgin Marbles to Greece?
As rumours about talks to repatriate the Elgin Marbles to Greece resurface, we get two experts to make the case for and ...
Artnet2y
The British Museum Is Said to Be Reaching a Deal With Greece on the Parthenon Marbles. But the U.K. Warns It Can’t Break Up Its Collection
The UK government has today warned the British Museum in London that it is legally forbidden to break up its collection, according to the Agence France Presse. The news comes just days after it ...
Nature12mon
Catalogue of the Batrachia gradientia s. caudata, and B. apoda in the Collection of the British Museum
The number of species of tailed Batrachians in the British Museum collection now amounts to 78 against 38 in 1850. Several of the species which are wanting in the collection are natives of America ...