British Museum director resigns, admits to failings in theft investigation

Visitors walk outside the British Museum in Bloomsbury, London, in 2015 [File: Tim Ireland/AP Photo]

The director of the British Museum said he would resign after admitting to failings in his investigation of the theft of items from the museum’s collection.

The museum was alerted more than two years ago to the possible theft or disappearance of valuable artefacts when an art historian became suspicious about objects for sale online.