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It's one-quarter of their collection, and they've had 271 years to accumulate and catalog all this material. As others have mentioned, they have enough staff.

I would assume they issue a receipt and itemize donations nowadays. I think part of it could be reluctance because not everything they have in their possession is rightfully theirs[0].

I don't know all the attributes required to properly catalog an artifact, but I imagine that advances in computer vision and translation could help tremendously.

https://www.businessinsider.com/british-empire-stole-cultura...