What the V&A’s director actually said about digitisation

Tristram Hunt, the new director of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, recently appeared to take an unlikely stand against the digitisation of museum collections. Museums are rethinking the rush to digitise their collections amid concerns that such projects are costly and of little value, wrote the Times newspaper, in a report on Hunts comments at the Hay Festival in Wales. Some may have assumed that Hunt, a historian specialised in 19th-century Britain and a former politic