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He first applied for the director's job in 2002 when Neil MacGregor stepped down.
ECONOMIST: London's National Gallery
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They included the director of the British Museum Neil MacGregor, the novelist Anita Brookner and the critic Brian Sewell...
BBC: The return of the X Factor
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At the prompting of its director, Neil MacGregor, the British Museum will bring the story of Babylon up to date.
ECONOMIST: Babylon
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However, Neil MacGregor, the BM director, is as passionate (and as eloquent) about keeping the marbles in London as the Greeks are about getting them back.
ECONOMIST: A new tribute to the Parthenon
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Museum director, Neil MacGregor, said the exhibition has been possible following a collaboration with the Archaeological Superintendency of Naples and Pompeii, "which has meant extremely generous loans of precious objects from their collections, some that have never travelled before".
BBC: British Museum to exhibit artefacts from buried cities
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Over the past two years, Perry has been let loose inside what the museum's boss Neil MacGregor calls "one of the great imaginative storehouses of the world, " free to pick and choose items for his show from its immense collection.
CNN: October 6, 2011 -- Updated 1319 GMT (2119 HKT)