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British Museum Will Digitize Entire Collection at a Cost of $12.1 M. in Response to Thefts (www.artnews.com)
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The British Museum will update or upgrade records of 2.4 million items to increase security and public access.

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[–] theplanlessman@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago

I'm honestly shocked this hasn't happened already. How can a world class museum not have a centralised inventory of all its items?