Editing Neil MacGregor (section)

{{Short description|British art historian (born 1946)}}
{{about|the museum director Neil MacGregor|similarly named people|Neil McGregor (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name             = Neil MacGregor
| honorific suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|OM|AO|FSA|size=100%}}
| image            = Neil MacGregor, Bill Bryson, Claire Walker, Huw Edwards (28449155987) (Neil MacGregor cropped).jpg
| caption          = MacGregor in 2018
| birth_name       = Robert Neil MacGregor
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1946|6|16}}
| birth_place      = [[Glasgow]], Scotland
| education        = [[The Glasgow Academy]], Scotland
| alma_mater       = [[New College, Oxford]]<br>[[École Normale Supérieure]]<br>[[University of Edinburgh Law School|University of Edinburgh]]<br>[[Courtauld Institute of Art]]
| occupation       = Art historian and museum director
}}

'''Robert Neil MacGregor''' (born 16 June 1946) is a British [[art historian]] and former museum director. He was editor of the ''[[The Burlington Magazine|Burlington Magazine]]'' from 1981 to 1987, then Director of the [[National Gallery]], London, from 1987 to 2002, [[Director of the British Museum]] from 2003 to 2015,<ref>theguardian.com 8 April 2015</ref> and founding director of the [[Humboldt Forum]] in Berlin until 2018.<ref name="humboldtforum-bio">{{cite web |url=https://www.humboldtforum.org/en/magazine/author/neil-macgregor-en/ |title = Neil MacGregor {{!}} Humboldt Forum}}</ref>