ANOTHER 250th anniversary this month:

British museum director talking collections
An extract from Neil MacGregor's anniversary lecture where he reflects on the great works made by humans throughout history

Neil MacGregor (London Times)

It was 250 years ago this month that the British Museum first opened its doors to the public. When you visit the museum today, you visit somewhere that is like no other collection, no other building on earth. It is the only place where you can, in every sense, walk through the world, and through time, and look at the whole range of what humans have made and speculate as to what they have thought.

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More on Neil MacGregor and the British Museum here.