British Museum director will stay
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British Museum Director Neil MacGregor was approached to be the next head of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and has preferred to keep his London job for another five years, the British Museum said.
Chairman Niall FitzGerald said that MacGregor had agreed to lead the museum through 2012. MacGregor took over in 2002.
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