Museum Metamorphosis 2013: February 2011

21 February 2011

Registration Guaranteed

Museobunny has been receiving emails from people whose tails have been anxiously twitching about whether their registration and payment guarantees them a place. Museobunny would never take people's money and leave them in the cold! It is against his fluffy white nature! Do not worry, attending-bunnies, your registration and payment guarantees you a place, and your registration will be confirmed by one of the helper-bunnies. If we run out of spots, Museobunny will let you know right away!

14 February 2011

Conference Program

Woohoo! We have a shiny new conference program - Museobunny and all his helper-bunnies are very excited about it, so hop on over to our website and check it out.

Remember to register, or the Red Queen will have your head!

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'.