For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.
Neil MacGregorFrom the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this sense, it is making things that makes us human.
Neil MacGregorThe British Museum was founded with a civic purpose, to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.
Neil MacGregor