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June 22, 2002
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Making an exhibition of themselves

Hard times at the British Museum

A MONUMENT to imperialist plunder, the home-away-from-home of the Elgin marbles, a showcase of booty looted from the four corners of the earth by gangs of marauding dead white gentlemen? Or a gigantic Aladdin's cave of global culture spanning centuries and continents, lovingly maintained for the benefit of anyone with an interest in the world they live in? However you see it, there's nowhere else like it: the British Museum is unique. Except in one respect: it is short of money.

Behind the bizarre variety of artefacts, the British Museum has another, less visible, side. It is a ...

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