British Quote by Neil MacGregor

It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it…

— Neil MacGregor

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

— David Attenborough

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

— M. E. W. Sherwood

My favourite museum is the British Museum.

— Felipe Anderson

A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time, years, decades.

— Peter Orner

“The great museums may harbour the conscience for the natural world, not merely provide its catalogue.”

— Richard Fortey

Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm,…

— Thomas P. Campbell

Museums have these great collections and the reality is they attract a regional audience not a national audience.

— Scotty Cameron

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

— Robert Smithson

One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you've managed to save old things but to keep using them - that they've…

— Bill Bryson

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions -…

— Thomas P. Campbell

Museums collect what's important in their respective countries. In Berlin's National Gallery, however, this isn't the case. They're interested neither in me nor the…

— Georg Baselitz