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Saving Iraq's heritage Director Neil MacGregor should be celebrating the British Museum's 250th anniversary but instead finds himself on an international mission
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THE director of the British Museum is visibly agitated. Today, his
legendary calm and courteous manner cannot hide exasperation. Moments
before we meet, and after three days of scandalised headlines on the
looting in Iraq, Neil MacGregor has learned that the ransacked
Baghdad Museum still has no American soldiers protecting it. "Not
one, can you believe it?" His colleague John Curtis, a world
authority on Iraqi archaeology, had just managed, after weeks of
silence, to make contact with his Ba...
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Saving Iraq's heritage Director Neil MacGregor should be celebrating the British Museum's 250th anniversary but instead finds himself on an international mission
Evening Standard - London
; THE director of the British Museum is visibly agitated. Today, his legendary calm and courteous manner cannot hide exasperation. Moments before we meet, and after three days of scandalised headlines on the looting in Iraq, Neil MacGregor has learned that the ransacked Baghdad Museum still has no
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Saving Iraq's heritage; Director Neil MacGregor should be celebrating the British Museum's 250th anniversary but instead finds himself on an international mission.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; Byline: FIONA MADDOCKS THE director of the British Museum is visibly agitated. Today, his legendary calm and courteous manner cannot hide exasperation. Moments before we meet, and after three days of scandalised headlines on the looting in Iraq, Neil MacGregor has learned that the ransacked Baghdad
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British Museum boss rejects a bite of the Big Apple
Evening Standard - London
; ... was delighted that Mr MacGregor had agreed to another five-year term. "I think that is hugely joyous news for the British Museum and outstanding news for the standing of the UK in the international cultural scene," he said. "Outstanding success only ...
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Iraq aftermath: Power struggle - British Museum leads rescue bid for Iraqi heritage Antiquities
The Independent on Sunday
; ... the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad following an outbreak of organised looting last weekend. Mosul Museum was also ransacked. News of Mr MacGregor's latest initiative emerged yesterday, as Jordan declared it had seized 42 stolen Iraqi paintings from journalists ...
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British Museum sorts things out After 250 years, director wants 'world under one roof' again
International Herald Tribune
; 00-00-0000 With the National Gallery cruising along smoothly, Tate Britain and Tate Modern drawing big crowds, and the Victoria and Albert Museum once again in vogue, the British Museum has stood out of late as the ''sick man'' of London's great museums. Even praise for its resplendent new
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British Museum director tipped for Metropolitan ; The Londoner's Diary
Evening Standard - London
; COULD British Museum director Neil MacGregor be on the move? Philippe de Montebello, long-serving director of Metropolitan Museum NY, has announced his retirement and MacGregor is tipped as a possible successor. He is one of four names on an unofficial shortlist. MacGregor, who is currently abroad,
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When the terracotta army marches in Space will have to be made at the British Museum for next year's blockbuster show. Does this spell the end for the great Reading Room?
Evening Standard - London
; IF Aweek is a long time in politics, four years is an eternity in the life of a cultural institution. In August 2002, when Neil MacGregor took over as director, the British Museum was facing a Pounds 5 million shortfall, a rash of strikes and a level of public apathy so dire that not a media peep
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Boss of British Museum snubs U.S. job offer
Evening Standard - London
; BRITISH Museum director Neil MacGregor has turned down the chance to head New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The 62-year-old arts leader had been hotly tipped to succeed Philippe de Montebello, the long-serving Met director who is leaving at the end of this year. The American institution
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Elgin marbles 'will never be returned to Greece' British Museum chief proposes computer model for Parthenon
The Sunday Telegraph London
; THE ELGIN marbles will never be returned to Greece, even on loan, the director of the British Museum has told The Sunday Telegraph. In a ruling which will infuriate the Greek authorities, Neil MacGregor - who took over as director of the museum last August - said that the marbles could "do most
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British Museum steals a march on China ; Its terracotta army show will vie with Tutankhamun to be the biggest attraction in London this year. But the British Museum's real aim is to open up a newera of cultural exchange
Evening Standard - London
; ONE frosty morning last week, in a pavilion where Ch'ing emperors issued edicts across half a continent, Britain reopened its cultural dialogue with China. The icebreaker was an historical exhibition, Britain Meets the World 1714-1830, that the Chinese had requested as a model for how to build an
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