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    Home - UK News - British Museum forced to close ‘after sacked IT worker shut down systems’
    UK News Updated:January 26, 2025

    British Museum forced to close ‘after sacked IT worker shut down systems’

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    British Museum forced to close ‘after sacked IT worker shut down systems’

    The British Museum forced to close some of their galleries after a disgruntled ex-employee tried to get revenge and shut down IT systems after he was fired, a spokesperson has said.

    The museum said police had arrested a former IT contractor who was dismissed last week.

    British Museum forced to close

    A spokesperson said: ‘An IT contractor who was dismissed last week trespassed into the museum and shut down several of our systems.

    ‘We are working hard to get the museum back to being fully operational but with regret our temporary exhibitions have been closed today and will remain so over the weekend.’

    Part of the museum’s permanent collection was also closed on Friday following the incident.

    A message on the museum’s website stated that it was ‘open but due to an IT infrastructure issue some galleries have had to be closed’.

    It added this meant ‘capacity will be limited, and priority will be given to members and pre-booked ticket holders’. As a result the British Museum forced to close some of their galleries. 

    Embarrassing security lapse for the museum

    About 1,800 objects were disclosed as missing or stolen in August 2023.

    The incident is the latest embarrassing security lapse for the museum after allegations emerged in 2023 that a former employee was suspected of selling items stolen from its vast collection.

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    The museum dismissed a staff member suspected of involvement in what it called ‘an inside job’, and alerted police who have interviewed a person but made no arrests.

    Hundreds of the items have since been recovered. Following a furore around that scandal, Hartwig Fischer, the director of the museum at the time, resigned.

    After a temporary head was appointed, Nicholas Cullinan – who was previously in charge of the National Portrait Gallery – took over the role last year.

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