British Museum strategy following Tutankhamun loss

The Times Online

The British Museum plans to build an enormous exhibition centre in London that will enable it to stage the biggest shows from all over the world, it announced yesterday.
It has already had to turn down the chance to show 130 spectacular treasures – the largest collection of Tutankhamun artefacts assembled in the West, which will instead be exhibited in the O2 , formerly the Dome, in Greenwich, southeast London.
It is now drawing up ambitious plans to construct a centre at the back of its historic building. Lord Rogers of Riverside, the architect celebrated for the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Lloyd’s building in London, has been commissioned to take control of a project that may cost £70 million.