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One of the most interesting but overlooked buildings on the campus of the University of Leeds is undergoing significant restoration. MA Arts Management and Heritage Studies student, Helen Roddis, takes a look at the efforts to preserve the original features within the 100-year old Agricultural Sciences Building during its renovation.
MA Arts Management and Heritage Studies student, Becky Crump, introduces a new project to showcase the unique heritage of the building currently under renovation as the new home for the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies.
Dr Mark Westgarth has recently been published in 'The Conversation' on museums selling objects from their collections.
Can collaboratively produced histories help enrich and enliven our democratic culture? This is the question being explored in a new collaboration between Helen Graham, Director, Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage, York Explore Libraries and Archives and York Past and Present facebook group.
The Centre's MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies students have developed a Hide & Seek Family Art Trail to create a family friendly angle to the university's Public Art Trail.l
We're currently calling for speakers prepared to rise to the challenge of sharing their current work in three minutes at the next Heritage Show + Tell on 8 December 2015
As part of next year's Association of Critical Heritage Studies Biennial Conference, Helen Graham and Liz Stainforth of the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums Galleries and Heritage are organising a panel on the theme of Heritage Futures/Utopian Currents.
Legacies of War, a research and public engagement project made up of a team of researchers at the University of Leeds (including Dr Claudia Sternberg of the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage), is one of four winners of the inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Impact Awards.
Dr Helen Graham, Research Fellow in Heritage and Centre Director, will take part in a live discussion organised by the Heritage Lottery Fund, on the subject of heritage participation on Thursday 17 September from 12.30 to 1.30pm.
Solomon Szekir-Papasavva studied MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies at the University of Leeds and now works as a Visitor Experience Assistant at Wellcome Collection. Solomon talks of his experiences on the MA course and of how it has equipped him with the relevant skills and confidence to embark on a career in the museums sector.