The Museums That Make Us: Curating Our Shared History

World-renowned art historian Neil MacGregor takes us across Britain to discover local museums and their hidden gems


Neil MacGregor, former director of the National Gallery and the British Museum, knows the importance of public museums. In The Museums That Make Us, he takes us around the country to visit twenty local museums and to talk to their curators, staff and local figures about the most prized objects in their collections. Often a child's first experience of valuable objects and histor...