Museum staff are “devastated” after drawings worth $500,000 were stolen and destroyed, the director has said. On Tuesday, Police S...

Museum staff are “devastated” after drawings worth $500,000 were stolen and destroyed, the director has said. On Tuesday, Police Scotland said that at around 11.30pm on November 19 a silver Ford Transit was stolen from Heron Square in Livingston, which was later found burnt out with parts stripped. Inside the vehicle were 1,742 Second World War-era technical drawings that belonged to the Royal Engineers Museum, based in Kent. The drawings were brought to Scotland to be digitised by a third-party company. The pieces included a collection relating to the design and construction of the D-Day Mulberry harbours, railways and bridging. Museum director Rebecca Nash is hopeful some items may have escaped destruction, and said the museum was told it appears to have been a “random act of criminality”. https://lnkd.in/gyYy84TZ