The British Museum is broken – here's who could fix it

“We failed.” This was the crux of an important speech that George Osborne delivered as chair of the British Museum in November. Speaking at the annual trustees’ dinner, he was referring to the scandal that beset the institution last summer, when it emerged that, “over probably several decades” (as he put it), around 2,000 objects from its storerooms had been stolen or damaged – allegedly by a senior staff member who has since been dismissed. The museum, Osborne acknowledged, had neglected its pr

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