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Description: | The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery cares for the object collections of Glasgow University, and makes them accessible to public visitors and to academic and research users, in Glasgow and around the world.
The Hunterian is Scotland's oldest surviving public museum. It opened in 1807, to house the collections of William Hunter, anatomist and physician, who left his collections to the University when he died in 1783. Hunter was one of the great European collectors of the 18th century, and had accumulated superb collections of coins, art, books and manuscripts, anatomical preparations, ethnographic material, minerals, and insects. All this material came to Glasgow.
Since then, material has been bequeathed, donated, arrived via University research and teaching, and in some cases, purchased. The collections are now among the finest, largest, and most comprehensive in Scotland, with over a million objects.
The Hunterian collections encompass a wide range of areas, including numismatics, art (e.g. globally important Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Whistler material), anatomy, palaeontology, geology, zoology, archaeology (especially Scottish Roman archaeology), ethnography (e.g. Captain Cook material), and scientific and medical instruments well as general historical material. There are extensive archives relating to the collections, which add to their historical and scientific value. All the Hunterian collections are of Recognised National Significance under the Scottish government recognition scheme. | Source: | MLA Institutions Server | Address: | University of Glasgow,
University Avenue,Glasgow,G12 8QQ,UK | Sector: | Museums | Type: | Higher Education | Telephone: | 01413304221 | Identifier: | GLAHM |
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