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• Mining the Museum

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2013/06/05/mining-the-museum-2/

  Posted by Janet Marstine in School of Museum Studies Blog on June 5, 2013 On 22 May at the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) conference in Baltimore I attended an unforgettable session commemorating twenty years since artist Fred Wilson’s precedent-setting intervention...

• Activist Museum Awards 2024 winners announced by Research Centre for Museums and Galleries

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/activist-museum-2024

  Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) has announced the winners of the prestigious Activist Museum Award 2024.

• A new annual journal: Museum Worlds

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2013/10/28/a-new-annual-journal-museum-worlds/

  Posted by Sandra Dudley in School of Museum Studies Blog on October 28, 2013 Excitingly, a new journal appeared in the world of museum studies this summer.

• Museum and Society

  https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/about/journals/museum-society

  Museum & Society was launched at the University of Leicester as an independent peer reviewed journal which brings together new writing by academics and museum professionals on the subject of museums. Find out more.

• Brussels Street Lamp Museum

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2014/01/07/a-most-illuminating-museum/

  A blog post from the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester about the Brussels Street Lamp Museum

• Museums in Ukraine

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/25/museums-in-ukraine/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 25, 2023 A special issue of Museum and Society has been published on the topic of museums in Ukraine https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.

• The Prado Museum’s new Digital Library

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/22/the-prado-museums-new-digital-library/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2024 …provides free access to a searchable catalogue of full text books and journals covering art history published from the late 15th to the early 20th century.

• Museums as sanctuaries from hate?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2016/11/02/257/

  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.

• Shanty Towns and Museums in Rio de Janeiro

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2013/04/03/shanty-towns-and-museums-in-rio-de-janeiro/

  Posted by Sheila Watson in School of Museum Studies Blog on April 3, 2013 Every now and then something takes your breath away and makes you rethink everything you ever thought you knew about museums.

• Activist Museum Award 2025 winners announced by Research Centre for Museums and Galleries

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/winners-museum-activist-awards-2025

  Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) has announced the winners of the prestigious Activist Museum Award 2025.