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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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[–] hanni@lemmy.one 25 points 2 years ago

And give the original pieces back to the original owners, right?

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 years ago

A little ironic for the British Museum to complain about important cultural artifacts being stolen, isn't it?

[–] Zellith@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

All historical items of significance should be 3D scanned into computers and made public. Everything is on borrowed time.

[–] 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?

[–] HerbalGamer@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

im gonna steal all their nfts