Beautiful day in Perth exploring the new museum and art gallery #unicorns

Land Marks 2 May – 28 Nov 2024 This exhibition curated by our AMAGS students asks the viewer to consider how we have shaped the landscape and in return how the landscape leaves its mark on us. Here is a sneak preview 👀 of a piece by #AnitaKlein #museumstudies #Leicester #Art

Congratulations Katie - such interesting work on the object label in science museums

On the fence about applying for our CDP studentship with School of Museum Studies, funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council? 🤔 Just look at who you could be spending your lunchtime with Ulster Folk Museum! 🤗 For further details, please visit: le.ac.uk/rcmg/current-n…. Deadline approaching - 20th May 2024! ⏳

Our faculty Ross Parry & Dr Sarina Wakefield are looking forward to the start of our annual Hong Kong Study Week tomorrow #museumstudies #Hongkong #hkuspace

An inspirational University of Leicester Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture from astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, hosted by Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock. An honour to hear from two outstanding and inspiring women scientists. #CitizensofChange

Great session talking all things food, science and chemistry with Dr Josh Smalley University of Leicester

So proud of the RCMG team University of Leicester receiving this after 25 years of work with museums and galleries

We are delighted for #RCMG - winning The Judges Special Recognition Award at the #MandHAward The Research Centre for Museums & Galleries, as part of the School of #MuseumStudies at #Leicester, carries out research that stimulates new thinking & creative practice. Congratulations!

Good to see the important Bletchley Park codebreaker Joan Clarke honoured with a blue plaque theguardian.com/world/article/…

Great to have you Tullia Fraser at todays Grand Yaji Gathering and thanks for sharing your knowledge about the collections Durham University Collections (no longer on X)

Check out this brilliant video from one of our University of Leicester PhD students for our Arts and Humanities Research Council project ‘Communicating Time and Culture’ highlighting the symbolism of the clocks in Chinese culture.

#museummonday the latest volume of Artefacts is (finally) out! Featuring me, Sam Alberti, James Inglis and many others pondering the uses (or non-uses) of museum stuff. scholarlypress.si.edu/store/all/unde…

Popped over to the blue plaque unveiling as we were appropriately serenaded by Tori Cross in the rain to ‘stormy weather’. The heartfelt stories of the jazz singer Adelaide Hall were truly inspiring. #blueplaque #London

With a chapter from me and Dr Rachel Boon on Mediators, media, and meaning: curating digital objects at the Science Museum

Rubha nan Gall lighthouse at Tobermory

Beautiful Bletchley pic.x.com/qMha5JkCd8

Fascinating to host this unveiling for English Heritage and hear all the wonderful stories of Diana Beck’s grit, humour and hard work #blueplaque

Delighted to be joining the Weald and Downland Museum, as their new Director. Preserving its collections of over 50 historic buildings, with traditional crafts and rural life, this fabulous team think about the methods of the past to build a sustainable future.

📡 10 years ago today we opened Information Age, a gallery that tells the story of 200 years of information and communication technologies! In a new blog post, Curator of Computing and Communications, Rachel Boon, explores these technologies and shares developments over the last