Delusion of the Director

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks
a truly bizarre claim from the new @britishmuseum Nicholas Cullinan on @BBCr4today this morning that the museum is “a collection of 8m objects— and the number of objects that are subject to discussion or contested, it’s less than twenty, it’s around fifteen”

Well, for a start, he's obviously counting the Parthenon Marbles bits as a single "object". Their website (Contested objects from the collection) pretends they care, but washes over a whole load of issues and conveniently does not mention some items...