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The First of Its Kind

The Department of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, the

Picture of H. Raymond Singleton, first Director of Museum Studies

first of its kind, was founded by Raymond Singleton with the intention of creating a Museums Profession and raising the levels of expertise in all sector of the museum world.

At that time there was one lecturer and one member of technical staff. 20 students studied museology and were divided into option groups for archaeology, English local history, natural history and geology. The Department was housed in 152 Upper New Walk in a house built in 1832 for a pawnbroker.

Picture of the original Museum Studies building

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MuseumArchitecture

A new book by Dr Suzanne MacLeod.

The book utilises a micro history, an in-depth case study of the ‘National Gallery of the North’, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, to expose the myriad ways in which museum architecture is made. 

Museums and Communities text book

This edited volume critically engages with contemporary scholarship on museums and their engagement with the communities they purport to serve and represent.

Scholarships for 2013

Making Military History in Museums Conference

Registration for the Making Military History in Museums Conference on 13 September 2013 at the National Army Museum London is now open

Call for Papers

Deadline for proposals for papers extended to Friday 3 May