The British Museum - a symbolic place of culture in London and the United Kingdom - is redoing its make-up after last summer's scandal triggered by the findings of the disappearance over the years of around 2000 valuable objects, at least in part stolen, as is suspected, by a former unfaithful employee, and announces the opening of a sort of reparation exhibition.
A special event in which some of those objects, which in the meantime have been partially recovered, will be exhibited.
The initiative will be entitled 'Rediscovering Gems', to seal the discovery of "rediscovered gems" which in part the institution had actually kept for years in its deposits (in the absence of a complete updated catalogue).
It will remain open from 15 February to 15 June, as announced today by the museum's president, former Conservative minister George Osborne.
Osborne explained that "hundreds" of objects have already been recovered: including 10 ancient jewels included among the most valuable pieces of this exhibition, among which two rare gems from the Roman era (first century BC - first century AD) obtained from glass stand out.
Last summer's scandal had forced the British Museum - a world-famous museum whose permanent collection includes, among other things, treasures collected in the imperial and colonial era such as the Parthenon marbles (vainly claimed by Greece) or the Rosetta Stone - to effectively give the sack to Hartwig Fischer, a German art historian who had been director of the London institution for 7 years.
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