Museums should take special care of loaned exhibits

IN DECEMBER, when 10 terra cotta warriors from Northwest China's Shaanxi province were on display at the Franklin Institute in the United States, a man having accidentally broken the thumb off one of the warriors, pocketed it and took it away. The man and the thumb have both been found. Thepaper.cn comments:

According to an arrest affidavit, a 24-year-old man broke off the thumb after taking a selfie with one of the statues during the museum's Christmas party.

Officials from Shaanxi say they had already checked all the security measures of the museum before signing the agreement for the exhibition. Yet these security measures failed to prevent the suspect from damaging one of the exhibits. The concerned US museum might need to improve its security arrangements to prevent similar things from happening again.