Peter Higgs was curator of Greek collections and sculpture until he was sacked, but his family says he has ‘not done anything’
employee sacked after the disappearance of precious objects has been named as a senior curator who worked at the institution for 30 years.
On Wednesday, George Osborne, the museum’s chair, said the trustees had “taken decisive action to deal with the situation, working with the team at the museum. We called in the police, imposed emergency measures to increase security, set up an independent review into what happened and lessons to learn, and used all the disciplinary powers available to us to deal with the individual we believe to be responsible.
“To be honest, it’s pretty shocking. We get reports of museum thefts every day from around the world. But this is the British Museum, one of the most important and well-funded museums in the world. In the UK, he said, there were too few police officers working on art and heritage crime. “There are two inIn order to recover stolen artworks and heritage objects, the institution “needs to be very clear about what has been taken and put it on databases. Then the trade – collectors, dealers, auction houses – needs to exercise due diligence in checking the databases.
The British Museum would have hundreds of thousands of small objects “which are very difficult to guard and very easy to put in your pocket”.
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