Museum Metamorphosis 2013: Book your place for Museum Utopias in 2012!

4 November 2011

Book your place for Museum Utopias in 2012!

We are excited to announce that we are now taking bookings for Museum Utopias: Navigating the Imaginary, Ideal and Possible Museum, to be hosted by the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, on 27 -28 March 2012.

Book your place here.

We are also pleased to offer four travel bursaries to full-time PhD students - please check our official website for eligibility criteria and an application form.

We look forward to seeing you all in Leicester next year!

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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'.