The British Museum has announced plans to digitize its entirety collectionin order to increase security and prevent theft.
According to ARTnews the British museum will digitize all thethemethose in his possession. The project will require 2,4 millions enrollments and is estimated to take five years to complete. The cost is estimated at $12,1 million and they hope to raise it from donations.
The museum's announcement came after news that 2.000 objects they had been stolen from the institution by a former staff member identified in the news as former curator Peter Higgs. About 350 have so far been recovered, and last month the museum launched a public appeal for help to find the remaining items.
The news of the thefts prompted the Greek Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni to write in a article in the News that 'the 'hospitality' afforded to the Parthenon marbles in the British Museum has always been flawed, incomplete and problematic.
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