#the british museum

[saintartemis]

"The British Museum curators I have encountered in the course of my work – who do not include the man who has been named in connection with the alleged thefts – have been among the most diligent, generous and committed public servants I have ever met. They are also paid shockingly little given the qualifications and skills required for the work at the country’s most celebrated museum. (A highly specialised job as a curator focused on Roman-period Egypt, for example, is currently advertised at £32,000.) The case of alleged thefts is a terrible blow for those working on the ground in the museum, and the cause of fury and disbelief. And yet, no one seems to care very much for the curators, as the media become ever more frenzied, and the culture warriors sharpen their swords."

"The ultimate irony, the elephant in the room? The chair of this foundering museum is George Osborne, the ex-chancellor of the exchequer, now multimillionaire fund manager. When he took a job at BlackRock in 2017, he was paid a day-rate of £13,000 – yes, earning in three days more than that new British Museum curator will make in a year. As chancellor he was behind the “austerity” cuts to public services and cultural organisations of 2010 onwards. That was not a theft. What it was was a withholding – on a grand and unforgivable scale – of care."

#museums #museum issues #the British museum #British museum thefts #museum professionals #museum workers #museum curators #politics

[dearearlyarchaeologists]

WANNA SHOW YOUR ARCHAEOLOGIST SOME TLC THIS VALENTINES SEASON?

Then you’ve come to the right place!

Stay tuned - there’s so much more…

#ARCHAEOLOGY VALENTINES EXTRAVAGANZA #SHOW SOME LOVE #the life of a bored archaeologist #valentines memes #archaeology #humor #valentines day #my memes #archaeology valentines #puns #memes #the British museum

[anneslovegood]

The British museum be like:

#meme #memes #the princess bride #the british museum #funny #princess buttercup #westley #inigo montoya #fezzik #andre the giant #inconceivable #history #history memes

[marlinspirkhall]

I hope the things missing from the british museum randomly turn up in museums at or closer to their sites of origin months down the line from now & the new curators are like “Oh, this? We stole it fair and square.”

#afaik no news outlet has reported which items were stolen yet* but I live in hope #*they said it was jewellery from but I wanna know specifics #The British Museum #British Museum

[depressed-linguist]

‘its sculptor well those passions read/ Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things’

- ozymandias, percy bysshe shelley

#my photos #the british museum #dark academia #poetry #percy bysshe shelley #writing #ancient civilizations #sculpture #ancient greece #museums #art #beauty #light academia #trying to channel my inner ancient because this world is just too much #dark acadamia aesthetic

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Flower Hair Pin of Rubies, Diamonds, Sapphires, Topazes, and Emeralds, ca. 1770, French.

The British Museum.

#hair pin #accessory #1770s accessory #1770s #1770 #french #1770s France #the British museum #diamonds #emeralds #sapphires #topazes #rubies

[blatantescapism]

Did you see the news about the artifacts stolen from the Stolen Artifacts Museum?

Someone working on the inside of the British Museum has been stealing artifacts from their vaults since at least 2016.

More than one expert recognized artifacts being sold on EBay and alerted the British Museum upper management, but they ignored and gaslit the whistleblowers- for two years.

The British Museum uses the excuse of “protecting” artifacts to justify its refusal to repatriate stolen treasures. The news has reinvigorated many campaigns for repatriation. Especially for the looted pieces of the Parthenon, aka the Elgin Marbles.

The main suspect, the guy who was recently fired, the guy whose name was on the EBay account fencing the artifacts,

was the acting keeper of the Elgin Marbles.

The museum officials and the BBC are giving slanted updates to try to make it seem less bad than it actually is, but it’s bad:

#british museum #stolen art #stolen artifacts #the british museum #art news #museum #museum news #elgin marbles #parthenon #greek art

[museeeuuuum]

About a year ago now, I gave a talk as part of an emerging museums professionals panel. For the talk, we were given ten minutes to discuss our hopes for the future of the museum sector. My talk discussed the staff of these institutions and how I hope that they can thrive.

Staff are the lifeblood of the museum sector, but they are overworked and underpaid. I have converted my talk into a YouTube video, but decided to mix things up a bit: I invited 5 guests, museum professionals from Canada, the US, Finland, and the UK, to chat with me about their experiences in this sector.

Please watch this video and be sure to give the participants some love in the comment section!

#museum #the british museum #grant museum #archaeology #history #museums #youtube #canadian history

[mercuriicultores]

~50-25 a.Ch.n., Marcus Cossutius Cerdo, Proconnesian marble statue of the youthful Pan

#Marcus Cossutius Cerdo #Marcus Cossutius #Statua marmorea Proconnesia Panis iuvenis #Proconnesian marble statue of the youthful Pan #saec. I a.Ch.n. #50 a.Ch.n. #25 a.Ch.n. #sculptura #The British Museum #Londinii #Pan #Z4DFTLG

[thief-throwdown]

#thief throwdown #Round 3 #voting #rouge the bat #sonic #the british museum

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #the british museum #racism #colonization #colonialism #theft

[i-am-aprl]

#Egypt #Rap #Kiro #Egyptology #History #Histoire #Stolen goods #The British museum #Egyptian mythology

[ecoamerica]

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[fmstonecarving]

Masked Assyrian Winged Genie.

Hand carved in sandstone, now in possession of the British Museum.

Can be viewed here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_2020-6011-1

#carving #stone carving #sculpture #art #traditional art #ancient history #ancient art #archaeology #antiquities #ancient civilizations #assyria #neo assyrian #ancient assyria #mesopotamia #mesopotamian art #mesopotamian #british museum #museum #the british museum #hand crafted

[quo-usque-tandem]

Geometric jug with a strainer in the form of a ram's head - Italy, 700 BCE

#art #pottery arts #geometric jug with a strainer in the form of a ram's head #Italian art #ancient art #The British Museum

[northern-punk-lad]

The british museum get rightfully a lot of criticism for what it’s stolen

But I feel we don’t talk enough the German museums like the joke is the British museum would steal buildings if they could the German museums did steal whole ass buildings

#the british museum #German museums

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Silver and Diamond Comb Mounts, 1805, French.

The British Museum.

#diamonds #silver #1805 #1800s #1800s accessory #1800s hair accessory #comb #1800s comb #the british museum #reign: Napoleon I #French #1800s France #France