Special lecture given by the Director of The British Museum, Neil MacGregor, on Germany: memories of a nation, the subject of a BBC Radio 4 series and a feature exhibition at the Museum which explores 600 years of German history using objects, art, landmarks and literature. The lecture will be followed by a short drinks reception.

As at 20th November this event is fully booked.

Neil MacGregor has been Director of the British Museum since August 2002. He studied at Oxford and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, before going to the Courtauld Institute of Art in London to study 17th and 19th-century art. He was for six years a lecturer in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Reading and a part-time lecturer at the Courtauld. In 1981 he became Editor of the arts periodical, The Burlington Magazine. He became Director of the National Gallery in 1987.

Neil sits on the Board of the National Theatre, London and the International Advisory Board of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. In 2010 the British Museum and the BBC worked together on a project telling A History of the World in 100 objects. In 2012 another BBC radio series, Shakespeare’s Restless World, was broadcast and the accompanying book was published in September 2012. The most recent collaboration Germany: memories of a nation was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in autumn 2014 and the accompanying book has just been published.

BBC Radio 4 podcasts can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/germany and details of The British Museum exhibition athttps://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/germany_memories_of_a_nation.aspx