Neil MacGregor has been director of the British Museum since last August. He says the museum’s relationship with the government is better. And that the museum is thinking on new ways of displaying its collections. “It is clearly possible to construct many different narratives. One of the questions is where the universal story should begin: where do you site prehistory? Do you then want visitors to move from prehistory into Mesopotamia? Or, as much of our material is British, do you want to start the sequence of British archaeological galleries? Or do you want to go on to the hunting societies of North America?”