On 8 April 2015, MacGregor announced his retirement as Director of the British Museum.
It was announced that MacGregor would become founding director and head of the management committee of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, and that he would make recommendations to the German government on how the future museum can draw on the resources of the Berlin collections to "become a place where different narratives of world cultures can be explored and debated".
The three-member management committee also includes the co-directors, archaeologist Hermann Parzinger and art historian Horst Bredekamp.

One of MacGregor's proposals is to make the museum admission-free, based on the model of the British Museum.
On 8 April 2015, MacGregor announced his retirement as Director of the British Museum. It was announced that MacGregor would become founding director and head of the management committee of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, and that he would make recommendations to the German government on how the future museum can draw on the resources of the Berlin collections to "become a place where different narratives of world cultures can be explored and debated". The three-member management committee also includes the co-directors, archaeologist Hermann Parzinger and art historian Horst Bredekamp.
One of MacGregor's proposals is to make the museum admission-free, based on the model of the British Museum.
Neil MacGregor