My visit to the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Whilst doing research in September in Hong Kong and Guangdong, I had the good fortune to visit the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA), an institution of 5000 emerging artists from which a good number of our students come. Whilst there I met the Director of the GAFA Art Museum, Professor Hu Bin, who told […]
Behind the Scenes at the 21st Century Museum – a look back…
Last time I posted, we had just opened up registration for our Massive Open Online Course (or ‘MOOC’). Back then, just a few months ago, we could only imagine how successful it would be. Over 11,000 people signed up for the six week course, and between them they have posted 43,500 comments in total. These […]
Behind the Scenes at the 21st Century Museum
You can now sign up for our MOOC (Massive Open Online Course): Behind the Scenes at the 21st Century Museum, which will run for 6 weeks from 1st June 2015. Over the last few months we have been working away with our friends and colleagues at National Museums Liverpool on this great new project that […]
Museums Alive!
A guest blog post by Ryan Nutting The PhD students at the University of Leicester School of Museum Studies recently partnered with the Migration Museum Project to present the sixth School of Museum Studies PhD student led conference Museums Alive! Exploring How Museums Behave Like Living Beings 3-5 November. This conference attracted delegates and presenters from 22 […]
The School of Museum Studies at the Museums Association Conference 2014
Posted on behalf of School Manager, Barbara Lloyd: Call me a sentimental old fool if you will, but I was quite sad to be attending my last ever Museums Association conference on the 9th and 10th October in the lovely, if wet, Cardiff. We have been attending the exhibition alongside the conference for many years […]
A most illuminating museum?
This post leaves me open to accusation of being something of a nerd, but never mind, here goes… Museums come in all shapes and sizes, from the large national museums to the tiniest community-led, subject-specialist and village museums. They cover all possible subjects offering something for everyone, whether you’re a lover of a dinosaur, a […]
Stories of a Different Kind
On Monday night, Jocelyn Dodd (Director of the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries) and I were lucky enough to attend the press night of Beauty and the Beast at the Young Vic – a superb new piece of theatre by Mat Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz that combines brilliantly funny (and sometimes outrageous) […]
A new annual journal: Museum Worlds
Excitingly, a new journal appeared in the world of museum studies this summer. Museum Worlds: Advances in Research is a new annual journal, published by Berghahn, co-edited by the University of Leicester’s Sandra Dudley and the Australian National University’s (ANU) Kylie Message and with Jack Lohman (Director of the Royal British Columbia Museum) and Howard […]
The French experiment of MuCEM
On my summer holidays I had the good fortune to visit the fabulous new French national museum in Marseille, MuCEM, an acronym for the Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée. Opened in June of 2013 as a key initiative of Marseille’s designation as a European Capital of Culture, MuCEM explores the complex […]
Exciting changes to our Heritage and Interpretation Masters for October
Several staff members here are spending their summer days revamping and enhancing our Heritage and Interpretation Masters programme. There has been huge enthusiasm and support within the School for the way that the course (formerly known as ‘Interpretation, Representation and Heritage’) is changing. Everyone wants to be a part of it! It has been particularly […]
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