{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=February 2023}} thumb|MacGregor in 2008 '''Arthur MacGregor''' is a British academic and author, "who largely invented the idea of the history of museums".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/curiosity-and-enlightenment-by-arthur-macgregor-797101.html|title=Curiosity And Enlightenment, by Arthur MacGregor|author=|date=18 March 2008|website=independent.co.uk|accessdate=29 August 2017}}</ref>
MacGregor has spent most of his career at the Ashmolean Museum, before his appointment as director of the Society of Antiquaries.<ref name="shnh.org.uk">{{cite web|url=http://shnh.org.uk/news/shnh-president-professor-arthur-macgregor/|title=A message from SHNH President, Professor Arthur MacGregor - Society for the History of Natural History|author=|date=|website=shnh.org.uk|accessdate=29 August 2017}}</ref>
He has been president of the Society for the History of Natural History since 2015, when he succeeded Hugh Torrens.<ref>Hildegard Wiegel and Michael J Vickers. 2013. ''Excalibur : Essays on Antiquity and the History of Collecting in Honour of Arthur Macgregor.'' Oxford: Archaeopress.</ref>
MacGregor is founder of the Journal of the History of Collections which he edited from 1989-2023.<ref>"Editorial changes at the ''Journal of the History of Collections''", ''Journal of the History of Collections'', Volume 35, Issue 3, November 2023, Pages 411–412</ref>
==Selected works== *2024. ''St Helena : An Island Biography.'' BOYDELL PRESS. *2023. ''The India Museum Revisited.'' UCL Press. *2018. ''Naturalists in the Field: Collecting Recording and Preserving the Natural World from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century.'' (editor) 2018. Leiden: Brill. *2018. ''Company Curiosities : Nature Culture and the East India Company 1600-1874.'' 2018. London: Reaktion Books. *2015. ''The Cobbe Cabinet of Curiosities: An Anglo-Irish Country House Museum.'' New Haven: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press. *2012. ''Animal Encounters : Human and Animal Interaction in Britain from the Norman Conquest to World War One.'' London: Reaktion Books. *2007. ''Curiosity and Enlightenment: Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century.'' New Haven Conn: Yale University Press. *2000. ''The Ashmolean Museum Oxford.'' Munich: Prestel. *1994. ''Sir Hans Sloane: Collector Scientist Antiquary Founding Father of the British Museum.'' London: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press in association with Alistair McAlpine. *1985. (with Oliver Impey). ''The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Europe.'' 1985. Oxford: Clarendon.
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