24th April 2007, 10:43 AM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by illuminated
It's worrying that the national museum of one of the world's richest countries spends less than £1 million a year on new acquisitions
Just to play devil's advocate for a moment, is this the same BM which alledgedly has huge stores of uncatalogued artefacts gleaned from 150-odd years of antiquarianism? It was also quite full when I last went; where are they going to exhibit any new aquisitions? Maybe they could spend a little money opening boxes and finding out what they've already got. Maybe they could sell a few things and make money to buy newer material, more representative of the current understanding of history.
(Devil's Advocate, as I say).
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