Neil MacGregor/ Museums and memories: The stories that make a community

Museums are places for complex stories for a diverse public. Neil MacGregor is in Australia to share his wisdom with us. He’s a writer and broadcaster, formerly led London’s National Gallery and the British Museum and founding Director of Berlin’s Humboldt Forum.

Everywhere, museums are now far more than just cultural institutions. They have moved politically centre-stage, playing a key role in defining and re-defining national and communal identity. Why has this happened?

In this lecture on International Museums Day, Neil MacGregor examines the ways in which museums around the world are attempting to exhibit the past we need to take hold of, in order to confront the future with confidence.

Neil MacGregor OM, AO, FSA is a writer and broadcaster, former Director of the National Gallery and the British Museum, London, and Founding Director of the Humboldt Forum, Berlin.

5:30pm Sat 18 May 2019
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA)
Brisbane Australia

This lecture is presented by QAGOMA in celebration of International Museum Day and supported by the Australian Museums and Galleries Association and the Gordon Darling Foundation.

© Neil MacGregor and Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees, 2019