The British Museum mentioned a member of workers has been dismissed after objects have been discovered to be lacking, stolen or broken
FILE – Guests stroll exterior the British Museum in Bloomsbury, London, Friday, June 26, 2015. The British Museum mentioned a member of workers has been dismissed after objects have been discovered to be lacking, stolen or broken. The museum mentioned Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023 it has additionally ordered an impartial evaluate or safety and ordered kickstart a ‘’vigorous program to recuperate the lacking objects.” (AP Photograph/Tim Eire, File)
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LONDON — The British Museum mentioned Wednesday {that a} member of its workers has been dismissed after objects have been discovered to be lacking, stolen or broken.
The museum mentioned it has additionally ordered an impartial evaluate of safety and ordered the kickstart of a “vigorous program to recuperate the lacking objects.” The objects embody gold jewellery and gems of semi-precious stones and glass relationship from the fifteenth Century BC to the nineteenth Century.
“Our precedence is now threefold: first, to recuperate the stolen objects; second, to seek out out what, if something, may have been completed to cease this; and third, to do no matter it takes, with funding in safety and assortment data, to verify this doesn’t occur once more,” mentioned George Osborne, chair of the British Museum.
This incident solely reinforces the case for the reimagination of the Museum we now have embarked upon,” Osborne added.
The museum mentioned authorized motion can be taken towards the person and that the matter was underneath investigation by the London police.
