The British Museum needed to shut a few of its doorways to guests Friday, after a former worker allegedly succeeded in shutting down parts of its IT system.
The BBC reports that the museum’s disruption was caused by a contractor getting into the constructing and accessing the IT community earlier than being arrested.
London’s Metropolitan Police confirmed {that a} man in his fifties had been arrested Thursday night on the museum.
Because of the incident, some galleries have been closed Friday, together with some short-term exhibitions.
The BBC quotes a spokesperson for the museum saying:
“An IT contractor who was dismissed final week trespassed into the museum and shut down a number of of our techniques.
“Police attended and he was arrested on the scene.
“We’re working exhausting to get the museum again to being absolutely operational however with remorse our short-term exhibitions have been closed at the moment and can stay so over the weekend – ticket holders have been alerted and refunds supplied.”
The British Museum was stablished in 1753, the nation’s first public nationwide museum. It homes the world’s largest assortment of artefacts devoted human historical past, artwork and tradition, with a everlasting exhibition of greater than eight million works.
Its priceless artefacts embrace the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles (renamed the Parthenon Sculptures by those that imagine they need to be returned to Greece) and the remnants of an Anglo-Saxon ship burial from Sutton Hoo.
The BBC provides that it was final 12 months named the UK’s prime customer attraction, receiving practically six million guests in 2023.
