MacGregorism
Posted in Internationalism, Politics on 26. Jan, 2009
If it is not clear by now, Neil MacGregor is considered a hero here at New Curator. It must be the time that his particular brand of globalisation, international diplomacy, “international museums” and repatriation policy be recognised with its own name and definition as a museum theory.
How about MacGregorism? Or maybe MacGregorisation, the process of directing a museum globally?
Mr. MacGregor’s lecture on the 250th anniversary is available as a partial transcript and as an eighty minute mp3.
Would “MacGregor’d” work? As in, “That new museum has been MacGregor’d and now they have a international reputation and partnerships all over the world“?
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