LONDON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - The British Museum said on Wednesday it planned to digitise its entire collection citing the need to secure public access its vast catalogue after it reported in August that 2,000 artefacts had been stolen or were missing. The museum, one of the most visited in the world, has been dealing with the aftermath of thefts which highlighted internal failings and led to the exit of its director. "We have taken steps to improve security and are now confident that a theft of this kind can never happen again," the British Museum's interim director, Mark Jones, said in a statement. "But we cannot and must not assume that the security of the collection, in a wider sense, can be achieved simply by locking everything away. The museum sacked a member of staff over the incident, which is also being investigated by London's Metropolitan Police.

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Persons: Mark Jones, George Osborne, Muvija, William James Our Organizations: British, parliament's Culture, Media, London's Metropolitan Police, Thomson