An investigation by Canada's auditor general found the Canadian Museum of History's conservation system is putting its collections at risk.
The federal Crown corporation manages collections for the Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian War Museum, and is charged with the care of more than four million objects and historical and cultural artifacts.
The audit found the corporation did such a poor job keeping tabs on those objects that more than 800 were declared missing during inventory inspections between 2012 and 2022. "There were no plans to resolve any problems uncovered in these verifications, including finding missing items," the auditor's report stated.
As of August 2022, 400 of those issues were still unresolved, with no plan or timeline to address them.
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