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This rose to 50 by the mid-1800s, including the addition of a trustee appointed by the Crown (British Museum Act 1832) and one representative each from the Towneley, Elgin, and Knight families. [7] The British Museum Act 1963 reduced the number of trustees to the current 25 and set the time-limit on appointments.
The actual governance of the British Museum, however, is delegated to its board of trustees. [1] At the museum's inception its most senior member of staff was called "principal librarian". The job title became "director and principal librarian" in 1898, and "director" in 1973, on the separation of the British Library from the museum.
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Over at the British Museum, the board of trustees took notice. A series of scandals, such as the one in which they discovered that a veteran curator had stolen more than 1,800 antiquities and sold ...
This list of museums in British Columbia, Canada contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available ...
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Trustees of the British Museum (64 P) Y. Trustees of York Museums Trust (9 P) Pages in category "Trustees of museums" The following 24 pages are in this category, out ...
The British Museum was alerted more than two years ago to the possible theft or disappearance of valuable artifacts when an art historian became suspicious about objects for sale on eBay. “It is ...