British Museum interim director Sir Mark Jones is appearing before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Wednesday.
British Museum interim director Sir Mark Jones said the institution is “confident that a theft of this kind can never happen again” after thousands of artefacts were stolen from its collection.
Last month, Mr Osborne told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme an estimated 2,000 items were missing and suggested the institution did not have a complete catalogue of everything in its collection, which has been amassed over several hundred years. “It is my belief that the single most important response to the thefts is to increase access, because the better a collection is known – and the more it is used – the sooner any absences are noticed.
“It is a big task, with 2.4 million records to upload or upgrade, but more than half is already done and when it is finished it will mean that everyone, no matter where in the world they live, will be able to see everything we have – and use this amazing resource in a myriad of ways.
A Hellenistic plasma intaglio, engraved with a young warrior seated on a rock, from 323-31 BC, similar to the items missing from the British Museum
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