Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery

The University of Glasgow's Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery is the oldest public museum in Scotland. It is located in various buildings on the main campus of the University in the west end of Glasgow, Scotland.

The museum and gallery's current facilites

The collections of the museum distributed across a number of buildings around the campus:

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The Hunterian Museum

Housed in large halls in George Gilbert Scott's University buildings on Gilmorehill, the museum features extensive displays relating to William Hunter and his collections, Roman Scotland (especially the Antonine Wall, geology, ethnography, ancient Egypt, scientific instruments, coins and medals, and much more.

Related Topics:
George Gilbert Scott - Roman - Antonine Wall

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The Zoology Museum

Most of the zoology collections, including those of William Hunter, are displayed in a separate museum within the Graham Kerr building, which also houses most of the University's zoological research and teaching. This is also open to the general public. The insect collections are particularly important and extensive, and are the feature of some excellent recent displays.

Related Topics:
Zoology - Insect

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The Hunterian Gallery

The Gallery is now housed in a modern, custom-built facility that is part of the extensive University library complex. This displays the University's extensive art collection, and features an outdoor sculpture garden. The bas relief aluminium doors to the Hunterian Gallery were designed by sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi. The gallery's collection includes a large number of the works of James McNeill Whistler and the majority of the watercolours of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Related Topics:
Library - Art - Sculpture - Garden - Bas relief - Aluminium - Eduardo Paolozzi - James McNeill Whistler - Watercolour - Charles Rennie Mackintosh

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The Mackintosh House

The Mackintosh House is a modern concrete building, part of the gallery-library complex. Like its neighbours, it stands on the site of a row of terraced houses, demolished in the 1960s to make room for the University's expansion across the residential crown of Gilmorehill. One of the buildings lost was formerly a home to Glasgow architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (although Mackintosh himself did not design it). The University rebuilt the form of the house (using modern materials) at exactly the same point in which the original had stood (indeed, one door now hangs precariously above a 20 foot drop, the ground having been radically excavated during the construction. The Mackintosh House features some of the original woodwork of the old terraced house, and has been furnished entirely to Mackintosh's design, with original decorations and furniture.

Related Topics:
1960s - Architect - Charles Rennie Mackintosh

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