Hundreds of artifacts missing from two national museums
“Inventory verifications were performed on an ad hoc basis and there were no plans to resolve any problems uncovered in these verifications including missing items,” said a Special Examination report by Auditor General Karen Hogan on Thursday.
“We were particularly concerned the corporation did not have robust inventory management systems and practices, which put the safeguarding of its collections containing over four million objects at risk,” wrote Auditor Hogan. “There were no action plans to deal with issues such as more than 300 items lacking proper storage, more than 15,000 items lacking source information and over 800 missing items identified in some inventory verifications.
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