The British Museum has solicited the public’s help in finding up to 2,000 artifacts that had been stolen over several years.
The museum does not have a full catalog of all the items in its collection of more than 8 million artifacts, according to the“Someone with knowledge of what’s not registered has a big advantage in removing some of those items,” said George Osborne, chair of the British Museum, and former U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer, told theThe news of the thefts has prompted calls for the museum to return the items to the countries they came from.
. “This includes full participation in the Benin Dialogue Group and working towards the aim of facilitating a new permanent display of Benin works of art in Benin City, to include works from the British Museum's collections.”to have a higher standard of care for the artifacts than the countries they were taken from, as justification for keeping hold of them.requested the return of over 23,000 artifacts in the museum’s possession.
“The British Museum has a long history of cultural collaboration in China,” the museum said in a statement to TIME. “The museum believes that displaying objects from China alongside cultural material from other parts of the world helps people understand China’s long history better. We have received no official request for the return of any objects in the collection by the Chinese government.”
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