Madness that has put our greatest treasures in peril; The cash crisis now facing the British Museum has been caused by misguided Government policies.

From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: May 31, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: ROWAN MOORE

REMEMBER the Lottery? Remember the billions that were to be handed out to the nation's longstarved temples of culture? Or the vague feeling, when you paid your pound for the little pink slip, that you were not only buying a modest fantasy of what you might do with [pound]16 million, but you were also contributing to "good causes"? If so, you may be baffled by the news that the ultimate and original temple of culture, the British Museum, is gasping for air like a stranded whale. Or, to be more precise, like a Great British Industry collapsing in the dim ...

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