Comment: Is expertise at risk at the Victoria and Albert Museum?

What if the Natural History Museum in London quietly ceased to have an expert in most of its species of coleoptera (beetles to you and me), one of the most numerous forms of animal life? Would we not feel that it was failing in its basic responsibility to both the collections and the public?
This is the equivalent of what has happened at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, which used to be a world leader in its knowledge of most branches of the decorative arts. Since 2016 it has