Museum Metamorphosis 2013: January 2013

31 January 2013

Museological Review Issue 17 is now available!

Following the successful Museum Utopias conference in the School of Museum Studies in March 2012, Museological Review -our PhD student led journal- started an editorial process to publish contributions that were presented as part of it. Finally, the result is a number of great articles that underwent a rigorous reworking and editing process, both from their authors and editors. They are now in the following link for your enjoyment and reading!

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/research/phd-student-research/museological-review

Feel free to circulate and comment.

Last, the editors would like to thank everybody that made the issue possible. Happy reading!

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'.