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Veteran Curator Peter Higgs Alleged to Have Pilfered Priceless Artifacts from British Museum

11/07/2023

Noted curator Peter Higgs on August 17 was named in English dailiesThe TimesandThe Telegraphas the British Museum staffer fired last month in the wake of the discovery that a number of invaluable objects had gone missing from the London institution’s …

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British Museum Director Hartwig Fischer Hastens Exit as Furor Grows Around Thefts

02/15/2023

Hartwig Fischer, since 2016 the director of the British Museum, has left his role at the London institution. He had earlier this summer announced hisplanned departure, in 2024. In the weeks that ensued, however, the museum become the focus of …

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British Museum Launches Webpage to Facilitate Return of Stolen Treasures

04/12/2023

The British Museum today inaugurated awebpageaimed at helping it recover the more than 2,000 priceless artifacts that wereallegedly stolenby one of its longtime curators, theArt Newspaperreports. The London institution says that it has already secured the return of sixty of …

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British Museum to Digitize Collection in Wake of Inside Thefts

05/27/2023

Closing the barn door firmly behind the horse, the British Museum yesterday announced that it would digitize its entire collection—much of which was previously uncatalogued—and make it available to the public online. The digitization is meant to ward off futuretheftsof …

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