Cultural Heritage: Bristol
Lords · Question HL12917 · Tabled 12 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport · Official record
Answered 7 Jan 2026
Question
Asked by Lord Boateng
To ask His Majesty's Government when they were first advised of the theft in September 2025 of artefacts from the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery archive.
Answer
Answered by Baroness Twycross, 7 Jan 2026
DCMS was alerted by Arts Council England at the end of October to a recent theft incident involving a storage facility operated by Bristol Museums. Fuller details about the scale of that incident were provided by the museum in mid December, at the time a ...