The Hunterian

Description

The Hunterian is home to one of the finest university collections in the world. Built on Dr William Hunter’s founding bequest, the collections today include major natural and life sciences holdings; scientific instruments used by James Watt, Joseph Lister and Lord Kelvin; outstanding Roman artefacts from the Antonine Wall; Hunter’s own extensive anatomical teaching collection; one of the world’s greatest numismatic collections; impressive ethnographic objects from Captain Cook’s Pacific voyages and a major art collection. The Zoology Collections represent most of the major groups of animals but with particular strength in the insects. Of the 600,000 specimens, 90% are insects. Other notable study collections include John Graham Kerr’s South American lungfish, local Mollusca, Himalayan bird skins and the Hansell collection of animal artefacts (bird and insect nests and other constructions).

Contacts

TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Lizzie O'Neil
Telephone: +44 7864 689 469
email: Lizzie.O'Neill@glasgow.ac.uk

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Jeanne Robinson
Telephone: +44 7305939619
email: jeanne.robinson@glasgow.ac.uk

The Hunterian
Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street
Glasgow
G3 8AW
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email: hunterian-enquiries@glasgow.ac.uk