Arthur MacGregor

Arthur MacGregor is a British academic and author, "who largely invented the idea of the history of museums".

[1] MacGregor has spent most of his career at the Ashmolean Museum, before his appointment as director of the Society of Antiquaries.

[2] He has been president of the Society for the History of Natural History since 2015, when he succeeded Hugh Torrens.

[3] MacGregor is founder of the Journal of the History of Collections which he edited from 1989-2023.

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