The British Museum: Too much to manage?

Charles M. Gray

Chapter Chapter 1 in Case Studies on Nonprofit Resilience Management, 2025, pp 18-26 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In the summer of 2023, it came to light that a curator at the highly regarded British Museum had stolen a significant number of artifacts from the museum’s holdings of some eight million objects collected from around the world. The thefts seriously damaged the Museum’s global reputation (Mendoza, 2023), and they raised questions of how such events could have happened and what could be done to prevent future thefts.

Keywords: British Museum; Organizational architecture; Decision management and control; Managing collections; Museums (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035328567
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