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  • Are museums ‘safe spaces for debate’? Not always…

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2017/09/06/are-museums-safe-spaces-for-debate-not-always/

    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.

  • University Head of School to hold public lecture on trust in museums

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/tilly-blyth

    Professor Tilly Blyth, Head of School of Museum Studies will hold a public lecture on trust in museums at Keele University.

  • Unearthing St Marys Abbey at the Yorkshire Museum

    https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/work-placement/unearthing-st-marys-abbey-at-the-yorkshire-museum

    Yingqi Gao/Yorkshire Museum/St. Mary’s Abbey

  • Shoes Unboxed at Wakefield Museum

    https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/work-placement/shoes-unboxed-at-wakefield-museum

    Janna King, MA in Museum Studies (now Documentation Assistant, Wakefield Museums and Castle) Here at Wakefield Museums & Castles, we had the pleasure of hosting student, Sarah Verreault, who spent eight weeks with us working on our Shoes Unboxed project.

  • Museum Data Service

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/09/18/museum-data-service/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2024 Museum Data Service is a cross-sector catalogue which aims to provide access to over 100 million records from 1,750 UK museums.

  • Research Centre for Museums and Galleries receives special recognition at Museums + Heritage Awards 2024

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/rcmg

    University of Leicester’s groundbreaking Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) was recognised at the Museums + Heritage Awards 2024.

  • Verity Smith: Project management at the National Media Museum

    https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/graduate-profiles/verity-smith

    Verity Smith graduated from Museum Studies at Leicester with an MA in 2012 and has since worked in varied and exciting roles in the museum sector.

  • Museums and social justice – and why I bang on about it quite a lot.

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2018/04/12/museums-and-social-justice-and-why-i-bang-on-about-it-quite-a-lot/

    Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on April 12, 2018   This week marked the 73 rd anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany. Between 1937 and 1945, 280,000 people were imprisoned there.

  • Donald Trump – Museums in the face of hate

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2017/01/30/donald-trump-museums-in-the-face-of-hate/

    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.

  • University of Leicester appoints Science Museum Principal Curator for key leadership post

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/tilly-blyth

    The Science Museum’s Head of Collections and Principal Curator will join the University of Leicester as its new Head of the School of Museum Studies.

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