Overview
- The museum plans to recruit an experienced specialist to pursue leads with dealers, auction houses and private collectors worldwide.
- Roughly 1,500 mostly small Greek and Roman items went missing over years, and 654 have been recovered so far.
- The five-person recovery team is overstretched, and officials say returns now typically come one or two objects at a time.
- The role centers on global outreach, archival research and recovery paperwork such as export licences, with all missing pieces listed on the Art Loss Register.
- Legal action against former curator Peter Higgs continues as reports cite sales on online marketplaces, and officials fear some stolen gold may have been melted down.