A student blog by Chenxiao Jin, 3rd year student of History of Art at the University of Glasgow, who has recently completed a work placement with The Hunterian and Archives & Special Collections. When I first saw the American artist James McNeill Whistler’s work in colour lithography, I thought I cannot be looking at a… Continue reading →
A student post from Hayley Lowe, Postgraduate Researcher in Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow. On the morning of April 5th 1804, Glasgow was alerted to the sounds of a series of loud bangs, heard as far away as Falkirk. To the amazement of the locals, these noises were accompanied with a… Continue reading →
A student post by Stephanie Shakay Tierney, MSc Museum Studies (Grad Dec 2019) at the University of Glasgow. Introduction by Hunterian Education Manager, Ruth Fletcher. Reflecting on volunteering at The Hunterian both pre and during the pandemic, Stephanie Shakay Tierney, MSc Museum Studies (Grad Dec 2019) gives an insight into the professional and in this… Continue reading →
A student post by Nadine Fussi, MSc Museum Studies student at the University of Glasgow. Introduction by Hunterian Education Manager, Ruth Fletcher. In another contribution from our Student Voice team, here is a piece by Nadine Fussi, Masters student of Museum Studies. Nadine moved to Glasgow after finishing her BA in Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin. An… 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 →
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 →
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 →
