Museum Metamorphosis 2013: Important Reminder!

11 September 2013

Important Reminder!

If you have not already registered for our amazing conference in November, sign up soon! The deadline for registration is October 25th.

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museum-metamorphosis

We have a spectacular programme lined up! We are very delighted that Sharon Heal, Editor of the Museums Journal at the Museums Association will be our external keynote speaker at Museum Metamorphosis and will be talking about 'Curators have only interpreted the world: the point is to change it'.
Our second keynote address will be by Matthew Constantine, Collections, Learning and Interpretation Manager for Leicester Arts & Museums Service and he will be talking about current developments and changes including the ACE-funded redevelopment of the German Expressionists Gallery.

Tickets for students are just £60 and professionals are £70! This includes tea/coffee and lunch both days. We are also arranging exciting pre-conference events on November 4th and a great networking dinner on November 5th.

Sign up soon!

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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'.