The British Museum will update or upgrade records of 2.4 million items to increase security and public access.

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    1 year ago

    And give the original pieces back to the original owners, right?

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    1 year ago

    A little ironic for the British Museum to complain about important cultural artifacts being stolen, isn’t it?

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    1 year ago

    All historical items of significance should be 3D scanned into computers and made public. Everything is on borrowed time.

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    I’m honestly shocked this hasn’t happened already. How can a world class museum not have a centralised inventory of all its items?