Museum Metamorphosis 2013: Contest!

22 September 2011

Contest!

Everyone loves a ticky-box poll, so we are announcing a contest in honour of our upcoming conference, Museum Utopias. We want to know: what do you think is the most Utopian Museum?

Send your answers along with your name and contact information to msphdconf (at) gmail (dot) com by October 15. We will then run a poll of all answers, and the winner will receive a discount on registration for the conference. We want to hear from you!

Please note: current Leicester University students are not eligible for this competition.

(Image: Elliot White Design Concept for Redevelopment of Queen’s Museum)

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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'.