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...George Osborne, chair of the British Museum and former UK chancellor, said in October the museum had been the “victim of an inside job” and pledged to improve governance....
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...“I have wondered whether there might be a way of using the export licensing system more imaginatively,” says Mark Jones, interim director of the British Museum, “perhaps by giving overseas purchasers an...
...The British Museum has struck a £50mn sponsorship deal with BP, despite vocal opposition to the partnership from environmental campaigners....
...An independent review of the British Museum following a series of thefts has recommended it “closes any gaps” in the registration of objects and boosts governance controls in several areas....
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...It was used in the coronation of Scottish monarchs until that time, and from then in the coronation of English and British monarchs....
...Tickets to the museum include one Mail Rail ride and unlimited access to the rest of the museum for a year....
...In contributing to the success of the British Museum, the support of companies, including BP, should be welcomed (“Culture war: Museum’s BP deal prompts court threat”, Report, December 20)....
...They are currently one of the most celebrated artefacts in the British Museum....
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...The British Museum has pledged to digitise its records within five years as part of a series of measures to safeguard its collection following the theft of about 2,000 artefacts....
...Nicola Lees, the British-born director of AAM since 2020, says her vision for the museum adheres to three principles: it is collaborative; its programme is led by the ideas of artists; it is site-specific...
...When the building was redesigned to accommodate a museum — which opened in 2017 — it was the more recent parts that were appropriated along with the old basement, now housing a refined shop....
...The museum also boasts an exceptional collection of Joyce’s belongings....
...That seems to lead easily on to the question of the British Museum and its problems....
...Cyber attacks on libraries, museums, public institutions and organisations of all kinds have been steadily rising....
...I have a lot of sympathy for the curators now getting lambasted by the critics of the British Museum (“A crisis of custodianship at the British Museum”, Opinion, September 2)....
...This is an audio transcript of the Unhedged podcast episode: ‘The great British bargain show’ Ethan WuIt’s been a pretty great past year or so for US stocks....
...“We are going to fix what has gone wrong,” said George Osborne, former Tory chancellor and British Museum chair....
...Museum, wrote on X....
...The work was most recently on show in the 2022-23 Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity exhibition at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice, and Museum Barberini in Potsdam....
...British Museum sacks worker after artefacts go missing...
...A member of staff from the British Museum has been dismissed after artefacts up to 3,500 years old were found by the London tourist attraction to be missing, stolen or damaged....
...He cites the British Library, formerly part of the British Museum, which has made 90 per cent of its collection of 160mn books accessible for study....
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