Neil MacGregor extends contract at Berlin's Humboldt Forum

Neil MacGregor, the former director of the British Museum, has extended his contract as the director of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin until its opening in the reconstructed palace in the centre of the city. Envisaged as a centre of education and research on the natural world and world cultures, the Humboldt Forum is scheduled to open in 2019 in what is currently a vast building site opposite the cathedral and Museum Island on the Unter den Linden boulevard.
 
MacGregor, 71, was appointed in