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The British Museum on Thursday named Nicholas Cullinan, an artwork historian who presently leads the National Portrait Gallery in London, as its new director, ending an unsettled interval by which the august establishment lacked a everlasting chief.
He will instantly face a bunch of challenges, together with the fallout from an embarrassing scandal by which the museum says a former curator stole over 1,800 gadgets from its storerooms, then offered most of the artifacts on eBay.
Cullinan can even be anticipated to guide an in depth fund-raising drive to pay for a significant refurbishment. And he must take care of growing calls for for the return of contested artifacts to their international locations of origin, together with the Parthenon Sculptures, also referred to as the Elgin Marbles, and a group of Benin Bronzes.
