An IT incident that disrupted visitor access to the British Museum last week was the work of a disgruntled contractor who had been let go.

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Tom Harrison, keeper of the British Museum’s department of Greece and Rome, told the PA news agency that getting back 357 stolen artefacts, so far, from six collectors had been “very ...

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The British Museum Says It Is Partly Closed After a Fired Employee Shut Down IT Systems LONDON (AP) — The British Museum, the country's most popular tourist attraction, was partially closed to ...

He was educated at Marlborough school and Oxford and was a classical and Sanskrit scholar. From 1868 he worked at the British Museum becoming Keeper of Manuscripts in 1888 and Egerton librarian. In ...

But the platypus, as it was soon realised, was not among these. George Shaw, keeper of the natural history collections at the British Museum (which were to later become the Natural History Museum), ...

The museum in central London, which attracts almost 6 million visitors a year, closed many exhibitions after the reported attack.