In defence of the UK’s pre-eminent cultural institution, the theft of 2,000 items shows some vigilance when compared with the Bibliothèque Nationale de France’s loss of 30,000 books and manuscripts two decades ago. The British Museum’s recovery efforts are less impressive. Last October George Osborne, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer who now chairs the museum’s trustees, announced that “350 objects have been recovered”. This figure rose to 351 in January, and then “hundreds” in February, according to the museum’s website.
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Missing mission: Where's the Christian heritage at the British Museum?
in defence of the uk’s pre-eminent cultural institution, the theft of 2,000 items shows some vigilance when compared with the bibliothèque n...
Lucien de Guise
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