Hundreds of British Empires have been stolen from a UK Museum, as police release pictures of men carrying the bags

More than 600 items from the British Museum’s British Museum collection were stolen from a UK museum in September, police said on Thursday.

Avon and Somerset Police have launched an appeal for information about four men who captured CCTV footage on September 25 outside a building in the south-west city of Bristol with pets from the collection.

“There are more than 600 pieces of art of various descriptions and descriptions,” police said in a statement about the theft from the British Empire and commonwealth collection.

“The theft of so many things that hold significant cultural value is a great loss to the city,” said the police officer in the case, Dan Burgan. “These items, many of which were donations, form part of a collection that provides an insight into Britain’s own part of British history.”

Police say they want to speak to four unidentified men, all wearing caps or hoodies, who were seen on CCTV images carrying bags this morning. Authorities have released multiple CCTV images, showing images of men in flames.

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Police said the other man had a stocky build and was wearing a white cap; The second man was of slight build and wore a gray coat; The third man was wearing a green cap and was seen walking with a slight limp on his right leg; And the fourth man was wearing an orange and navy/black jacket.

Police said the burglary happened between 1:00 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. on September 25 in the Cumberland Road area.

According to the collection’s website, “different documents document the links between Britain and the countries of the British Empire from the late 19th century to the present”.

It has a variety of items, many of them from the Pacific Islands and clothing from African nations.

There are also photographs, films, papers and audio recordings to provide “Insights into various lives and places of the world throughout history,” the website adds.

The collection was transferred to the former British Empire and general museum in Bristol when it closed in 2012.

It remains in the care of the City Council, along with Bristol Museums, which includes five different institutions, and the city’s archives.

Revelation comes from behind Thieves stole the crown jewels from the LouvreParis, October.

Last month, a large number of ancient coins were stolen from a Swiss museum after guards overpowered thieves, The police said.

In August 2023 the British Museum in London revealed that around 1,800 objects were taken from its world-famous collections by a former employee. The items, which included “gold jewelry and precious stone jewelry and glass dating from the 15th century BC to the 19th century AD,” were found to be “lost, stolen,” Museum told CBS news at that time.

A few hundred He later recovered.

The director of the Museum, Hartwig Fischer, resigned in August 2023 after admitting that the institution did not take action “as it should have” in warnings that things have been lost.