Museum Metamorphosis 2013: Museobunny wants YOU!

13 January 2011

Museobunny wants YOU!

Registration is now open for theCuriouser & Curiouser Conference at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, being held from the 28th – 30th March 2011. Please visit the official conference website for more information and the registration form.

This interdisciplinary conference, aimed at PhD students, early career researchers and museum professionals, will seek to challenge notions of normality and eccentricity in museums, galleries and heritage institutions.

Applications for travel bursaries close on 15th January.

We look forward to welcoming you to our conference!

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Curiouser and Curiouser 2011

Curiouser and Curiouser was a conference that took place in March 2011 by the PhD students at the University of Leicester's School of Museum Studies. It set out to deconstruct the ideas of normality and eccentricity in museums and heritage institutions. What exactly is normal and what is idiosyncratic or eccentric? The conference questioned whether there is a true distinction between these terms, explore new possibilities of definition and shed new light on the standard notion of collections, collecting and interpretation. We wished to take an unusual approach to the ‘unusual’ and ask what is appropriate or permissible, what creates the eccentric and why we are fascinated by it. The conference proceedings are archived with the tag 'curiouser'.