The British Museum is suing a former curator alleged to have stolen hundreds of artifacts from its collections and offered them for sale online. Peter Higgs was fired last year after more than 1,800 items were discovered to be missing.
FILE - Visitors walk outside the British Museum in Bloomsbury, London, Friday, June 26, 2015. The British Museum is suing a former curator alleged to have stolen almost 2,000 artifacts from its collections and offered them for sale online. Peter Higgs was fired in July 2023 after more than 1,800 items were discovered to be missing. The museum is suing Peter Higgs, who was fired in July 2023 after more than 1,800 items were discovered to be missing.
Burgess said the defendant tried to “cover his tracks” by using fake names, creating false documents, manipulating the museum’s records and selling artifacts at less than their value. Museum director Hartwig Fischer resigned after the loss of the items was revealed in August, apologizing for failing to take seriously enough a warning from an art historian that artifacts from its collection were being sold on eBay.
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