A staff post from Zandra Yeaman, Curator of Discomfort at The Hunterian. After many years of agitating and campaigning for change within cultural and heritage institutions from the outside, I find myself working on the inside with The Hunterian as their Curator of Discomfort. Since my post has been publicised, many people have been curious… Continue reading →
A student post by Iona Tytler, studying for an MSc in Gender History at the University of Glasgow. William Hunter’s pioneering work ‘The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus’ was published in 1774 and detailed the human uterus at various stages of pregnancy. (GB 247 MS Hunter 658 (Az.1.4) The item pictured above is one… Continue reading →
A student post from Isabel Ferrari, Hunterian MuSE volunteer. Introduction by Hunterian Education Manager, Ruth Fletcher. This student post comes from one of the student volunteers from a newly established project team: LGBTQ online at The Hunterian (working title), through which we hope to reveal LGBTQ+ stories from the Hunterian collections that are there but… Continue reading →
The Hunterian is delighted to present a guest post written by Dr Patricia R. Andrew, the leading authority on Jacob More’s life and work, as part of its celebrations around the addition of a new painting to its collections, Neidpath Castle. The picture was acquired in the autumn of 2020 with the help of the… Continue reading →
A student post from Rosemary Hanson, an archaeology masters student at the University of Glasgow, MSc Material Culture and Artefact Studies. During the first few months of 2020, I undertook a project of archaeological illustration for a number of small stone tools held by the Hunterian Museum as part of a masters degree in Archaeology… Continue reading →
A staff post by Maggie Reilly, Curator of Zoology at The Hunterian. Many of us involved in teaching are working flat out to prepare digital versions of practical classes. As everyone knows by now, almost all teaching has moved on-line – certainly lectures, seminars, tutorial groups and so on. Digital teaching presents obvious difficulties for… Continue reading →
A student post from Julian Quinault, Hunterian MuSE guide. Introduction by Hunterian Education Manager, Ruth Fletcher. In March this year, our most recent recruits to the MuSE programme (Museum Student Educators) were just beginning to try out their recently learned tour material. Some of them had not even given their first tour when lockdown was… Continue reading →
A student post by Julian Quinault, Hunterian MuSE guide. Welcome, my name is Julian. I am a MuSE (Museum Student Educator) at The Hunterian, and I’d like to talk you through some of the Museum’s amazing highlights from the Antonine Wall. The Antonine Wall runs across Scotland just north of Glasgow, from the Firth of Clyde to the Forth. Construction of the Wall started… Continue reading →
A staff post from Dr Nicky Reeves, Curator of Scientific and Medical History Collections, The Hunterian. On the afternoon of Sunday, June 07 2020, a statue in Bristol of slave trader Edward Colston was dramatically toppled. One of the many accomplishments of this action, and others, was an increase in public discussion of statues, their history, and their function. A statue of Scottish engineer James… Continue reading →
A staff post from Steph Scholten, Director of The Hunterian. The Hunterian is the oldest public museum in Scotland (1807), in one of the oldest Scottish universities (1451). It is deeply rooted in Scotland’s complex history which has led to multiple inequalities and prejudices that persist today, perhaps most notably in relation to race. Recent global and local events have emphasised once more the necessity… Continue reading →
