An unnamed member of staff was sacked by the London-based attraction.
The museum announced that items from its collection were found to be ‘missing, stolen or damaged’ and police were investigating
At the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, it was also disclosed that “records were altered” to conceal thefts following an estimated 2,000 items being stolen. “There are others tasks of taking the 300,000 objects that are registered but not digitised at all and digitising them, taking the 1.1 million objects which are digitised but have no photographs and making sure that they’re associated with a photograph.Sir Mark also suggested what is considered “good quality documentation” has changed and now involves digitisation, accessibility and photography.
He said: “The objects have started to be recovered … We have changed our whistleblowing code, changed our policy on thefts … tightened up security on thefts.” He said: “There is a lot of public interest in these objects … 350 have now been recovered and titles have been transferred to us so we have the makings of a good exhibition that was not previously planned.”
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