The second Annual Lecture of the Forum Transregionale Studien will be delivered by Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, on the subject “Global Collections for Global Cities”.
All the world's great cities have populations from many cultures, practicing many religions, speaking many languages. How these diverse citizens live together is perhaps the key urban question of our time - what role can museums and galleries play in these new circumstances? Berlin, Paris and London all have collections and populations - drawn from the whole world. The lecture will explore the question of what civic function these collections can perform today.