This article is about the museum director Neil MacGregor. For similarly named people, see Neil McGregor (disambiguation).
Neil MacGregor
OM AO FSA
MacGregor in 2018
Born
Robert Neil MacGregor
(1946-06-16) 16 June 1946 (age 77)
Glasgow, Scotland
Education
The Glasgow Academy, Scotland
Alma mater
New College, Oxford École Normale Supérieure University of Edinburgh Courtauld Institute of Art
Occupation(s)
Art historian and museum director
Robert Neil MacGregorOM AO FSA (born 16 June 1946) is a British art historian and former museum director. He was editor of the Burlington Magazine from 1981 to 1987, then Director of the National Gallery, London, from 1987 to 2002, Director of the British Museum from 2003 to 2015,[1] and founding director of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin until 2018.[2]
Robert NeilMacGregor OM AO FSA (born 16 June 1946) is a British art historian and former museum director. He was editor of the Burlington Magazine from...
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and religious diversity. The former Director of the British Museum, NeilMacGregor, said that the cylinder was "the first attempt we know about running...
as a traditional Babylonian king while denigrating his predecessor. NeilMacGregor, Director of the British Museum, has stated that the cylinder was "the...
by a three-member management committee, chaired by founding director NeilMacGregor and also including the co-directors, archaeologist Hermann Parzinger...
from the original on 5 August 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2020. "Mr NeilMacGregor appointed to the Order of Merit, 4 November 2010". Royal Household....
Berlin, 2005, p. 14. (Quotation translated into English by contributor.) NeilMacGregor, Germany: Memories of a nation, Penguin, London, 2016, pp. 112–130....
enable the construction of the Sainsbury Wing. The directorship of NeilMacGregor saw a major rehang at the gallery, dispensing with the classification...
the two passengers – and not because of the status of the passengers. NeilMacGregor likens this vehicle to a Ferrari or Porsche amongst cars – fast and...
President and Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, along with NeilMacGregor, are two of the most outspoken museum professionals who support encyclopedic...
History of the World in 100 Objects by the museum's former director NeilMacGregor. The palace room, where the relief was discovered in 1845–1847, was...
been buried at this date by the owner fleeing from the fighting. — NeilMacGregor, British Museum Director, A History of the World The cup became a prized...
History of the World in 100 Objects, presented by British Museum director NeilMacGregor. The mosaic covered two rooms, joined by a small decorated threshold...
drei Aufzüge. ("E. Karoli," pseudonym). Iserlohn: W. Langewiesche. NeilMacGregor (2016). Chapter 25: At the Buchenwald Gate. Penguin Random House UK...
featured in the BBC's A History of the World in 100 Objects, in which NeilMacGregor described it as "without question one of the supreme achievements of...
presented to the author by Queen Camilla. The judges – the panel comprising NeilMacGregor (chair), Shahidha Bari, Helen Castor, M. John Harrison and Alain Mabanckou...
a central icon in the Western Church. In the words of art historian NeilMacgregor, "From [the 14th Century] on, wherever the Roman Church went, the Veronica...
is the second Sri Lankan to win the prize, after Michael Ondaatje. NeilMacGregor (chair) Shahidha Bari Helen Castor M. John Harrison Alain Mabanckou...
Irish Megalithic Art on Arxiv.org 19 March 2019. Here Comes the Sun NeilMacGregor narrates a BBC Radio 4 / British Museum programme describes the solstice...
(1918–2009). Sir James Lithgow, shipbuilder and industrialist; 1883–1952 NeilMacGregor, Director of the British Museum Robert Maclennan, Baron Maclennan of...
4 series presented by NeilMacGregor, a former director of the British Museum. It explores human societies and what MacGregor describes as "the connections...
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