Wooden cross made from wreckage of refugee boat will be final acquisition as Neil MacGregor prepares to leaveA simple but powerfully symbolic wooden cross made by a carpenter from the wreckage of a refugee boat that sank in the Mediterranean is to be the final acquisition made by the British Museum under the leadership of Neil MacGregor.
Friday will be MacGregor’s last working day at the museum, marked by the unveiling of a novel photographic portrait by the artist Wolfgang Tillmans.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com