The ghosts are everywhere': can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?

The British Museum is less of a museum and more of a little state, encompassing many roles - from a university to a police station, and more.

Chairman George Osborne emphasized, 'We’re not a warehouse or a mausoleum. It is both these things, and others beside,' reflecting its rich multidimensionality.

Representing 300 years of British psyche, the museum embodies cultural curiosity, colonial dominance, and postcolonial anxiety, amassed through a compulsive accumulation of objects.

With at least 8 million objects, the museum's collection dwarfs that of the Louvre and the National Gallery combined, solidifying its status as the ur-museum.

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