It has been an ignominious couple of weeks at the British Museum, where the scandal over the alleged theft of potentially thousands of objects from the collection stores has already claimed two jobs.
A senior curator, Peter Higgs, has been fired, and having announced on July 28 that he would be leaving his post next year, the museum’s director, Hartwig Fischer, hastily amended that last week to say that his presence was “proving a distraction” and that he would step down as soon as a temporary replacement could be found.
