More than 1,700 exhibits are missing from Britain’s national museums and galleries
More than 1,700 items have been lost since museums and gallery in England – others of great historical value and others quite strange.
After the scandal caused with the director of the British Museum, Hartwick Fisher and the theft of more than 2,000 exhibits from the foundation, museums and galleries receiving public funding were asked to provide detailed catalogs with the items that disappeared last 20 years, according to the BBC.
THE National Portrait Gallery in London, which reopened in 2023 after a three-year renovation, has 45 “unaccounted for” objects: between 2007 and 2022, one painting of Queen Victoria since 1869, a engraving from the middle of the 19th century King John which grants the Magna Carta and a bronze sculpture by the painter Thomas Stothard “have not been located”.
However, the Gallery management insists that they are not missing or stolen.
Paintings of oil colors and watercolors, a puppetfalse moustache, socks and one mousetrap were among more than 180 items not found in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
“This does not mean that these items have been stolen or lost, it could mean for example that a catalog entry has not been updated after a collection move. Artifacts are regularly recovered as a result of this process,” said a Museum spokesperson.
More than 550 itemsprivate papers of British army officers, diary of Photo of the former leader of Iraq Saddam Husseinbayonets and bills have been lost from the Imperial War Museum.
From Greenwich Institution Museums 245 items have been lost, among others cannon shellcompasses, maps, telescopes and aircraft navigation system.
Source :Skai
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