About Quote by Neil MacGregor

Because of the long, long history of British shipping, immigration, trade, empire, missionaries, you can have a better shot at telling a worldwide story…

— Neil MacGregor

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

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

A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum…

— Neil MacGregor

The British Museum is great for seeing how excellent we were at stealing things.

— Russell Howard

The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger…

— Neil MacGregor

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

“Films featuring museums are on the whole, not serious ones. They are mostly comedies, mild thrillers, romances, and horror movies, with a few disaster…

— Suzanne Keene

The biggest looters are the British Museum.

— Lowkey

The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that…

— Marvin L. Cohen

As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted,…

— Martin Parr