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Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on January 27, 2019
What were you doing twenty years ago today? You probably don’t remember exactly, and neither do I, not exactly, but it is quite likely that by now on a Sunday in 1999 I would have been out in the cold and snow giving guided tours of the Concentration Camp Memorial Site that I was […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Holocaust Memorial Day, Museum Studies, Robin Clarke, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester |
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on April 12, 2018
This week marked the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany. Between 1937 and 1945, 280,000 people were imprisoned there. 56,000 of them lost their lives to torture and cruelty. It was a place of deep inhumanity and suffering. A place where people were murdered because of (amongst other things) […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Buchenwald, Museum Studies, Robin Clarke, School of Museum Studies, Social Justice, University of Leicester
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on November 20, 2017
Each year in November, we are reminded of our University’s motto, Ut Vitam Habeant – That They May Have Life. The University is a living memorial to those who died in war, and it is important that we remember and respect that. However, I do also think about how we might interpret our […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged International Transgender Day of Remembrance, Museum Studies, Robin Clarke, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester |
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on September 6, 2017
I keep hearing people talk about museums being ‘safe spaces for debate’, and this always makes me feel a little uncomfortable. Is that true? Are they always ‘safe spaces’? Why do we assume that the museum is a ‘safe space’? And who is it a ‘safe space’ for? And what does it say about the […]
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Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on July 27, 2017
50 years ago today, the Sexual Offences Act became law. It partially decriminalised homosexual acts between men. The ‘partial’ is important here as inequality still existed. There was still inequality in terms of the age of consent (that was rectified only as recently as 2001). Inequality still existed in terms of the circumstances in which […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged LGBTQ, Museum Studies, RCMG, Richard Sandell, Robin Clarke, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on April 5, 2017
There are many things in life that one should really rise above and not respond to. One such thing, in my humble opinion, is the Daily Mail. But this morning I took the unusual step of actually reading something in the Mail (don’t worry, I thoroughly washed my hands afterwards) – an article that was […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Daily Mail, Distance Learning, Easter, Easter Eggs, Heritage and Interpretation, LGBT, Museum Studies, National Trust, Prejudice and Pride, Robin Clarke, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester |
Posted by Sarah Plumb in School of Museum Studies Blog on February 24, 2017
Exceptional & Extraordinary was a research project initiated by the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) at the University of Leicester which set out to stimulate public and medical professional debate around the implications of our deeply entrenched negative attitudes towards difference. An intensive and sustained process of collaboration between RCMG, museum professionals, medics […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Exceptional & Extraordinary, Francesca Martinez, Jocelyn Dodd, Museum Studies, RCMG, Richard Sandell, Sarah Plumb, School of Museum Studies, SHAPE, University of Leicester, Wellcome Trust
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on January 30, 2017
A couple of weeks ago on Friday was one of the happiest days in our School calendar: Graduation Day. We love greeting our students and families, dressed up to the nines, complete with gowns and mortar boards, in readiness to be presented with their degrees, for which they have worked so hard. It is a […]
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Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on November 2, 2016
This morning I saw the front page of the Daily Mail (I’m not going to link to it. Google it if you must) as I walked past a news stand and it made me angry. Nothing new about that. ‘Foreign Lorry Drivers Break The Law’, it yelled in my face. As if no British person […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Brexit, Hate Crime, Museum Studies, Robin Clarke, School of Museum Studies, Socially Engaged Practice in Museums and Galleries, University of Leicester |
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on December 10, 2015
Over 11,000 people signed up for the first run of our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Behind the Scenes at the 21st Century Museum, and they were overwhelmingly positive about their experience. Demand is so high that we are running the course again, starting on January 18th 2016. But why might you want to undertake […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged #FLMuseums, Distance Learning, MOOC, Museum Studies, Robin Clarke, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester |
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