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2m pounds in the red, British Museum finds money for junkets

It spends less on new acquisitions than almost any other major museum in the world and is currently £2 million in the red. Yet the British Museum has been able to find tens of thousands of pounds to send its 23-strong team of trustees and top managers on a series of foreign trips.

The museum, home to the Elgin marbles and the Rosetta Stone, has dispensed with the tradition of holding its annual meeting of trustees at its London headquarters and has instead begun holding them overseas...

Amsterdam was the chosen location for the museum board's most recent annual general meeting last October. Seventeen trustees...spent two days at the five-star Radisson SAS Hotel...

The British Museum, which receives £40 million of government funding every year, said it had spent £16,500 on accommodation in Amsterdam and return flights -- an average of £834 for each trustee who attended.
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