Inside the British Museum: stolen treasures and a £1bn revamp
With more than 3,500 rooms, 8 million artefacts and 1,000 employees, the British Museum is one of the biggest showcases in the world, but by last year the 271-year-old institution had also become a 'basket case', according to the Sunday Times art critic Waldemar Januszczak.
There were buckets under leaking roofs, more than 2,000 objects had been stolen by a rogue curator and flogged on eBay without anyone noticing, the carpets were fraying, the
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