On Wednesday, the British Museum said that it plans to digitize its entire collection, after a theft incident that had been reported in August which left hundreds of artefacts missing.
Mark Jones, the British Museum’s interim director, said in a statement, “We have taken steps to improve security and are now confident that a theft of this kind can never happen again.”
“But we cannot and must not assume that the security of the collection, in a wider sense, can be achieved simply by locking everything away. It is my belief that the single most important response to the thefts is to increase access.”
