THE HUNTERIAN IN 2015 2 3

The Hunterian is one of the world’s leading university museums.

Founded in 1807, The Hunterian is Scotland’s oldest public museum. For over 200 years we have collected across multiple disciplines for research, teaching and learning. We now have 1.5 million objects in our collections.

The Hunterian supports the University of in delivering world changing research, raising its international profile and providing a unique and enriching student experience. We present exhibitions driven by academic pursuit, creating and communicating new knowledge through special displays and public engagement events.

The Hunterian is one of Scotland’s greatest cultural assets. This report is a snapshot of our achievements in 2015.

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ENGAGING AUDIENCES In 2015, we attracted 183, 150 visitors to our public gallery spaces. This was a 7% increase on the previous year - well above the national average for visitor attractions in the UK. We have seen a 69% increase in visitors since 2012.

In 2015 we had two major exhibitions, six research Our new programme of contemporary art displays exhibits and six rotational displays across our continued with The only way to do it is to do it, venues. Our major exhibitions were Ingenious curated by students from the joint University of Impressions: The Coming of the Book and Cradle Glasgow and Glasgow School of Art MLitt course of Scotland, both showcasing new research in Curatorial Practice and featured post-War from the University of Glasgow and a major draw American prints alongside new work by for visitors from across the country. Ingenious contemporary practitioners. Impressions charted the development of the early printed book in Europe and Cradle of Scotland A series of rotational displays added interest for explored some of the latest advances, technologies our repeat visitors and featured particular objects and discoveries in Scottish archaeology. in focus and new acquisitions. Highlights included a medal commemorating the marriage of Mary Research exhibits took place in both the Hunterian Queen of Scots, a Victoria Cross awarded to a Museum and the Hunterian Art Gallery. The Art of University of Glasgow graduate and a special loan Fiji showcased key objects donated to The from Drents Museum in The Netherlands titled Hunterian over the last two centuries and the Landscape at Rolde, Drenthe, on loan in exchange stories of the artefacts and their donors; Lusitania: for 26 works from The Hunterian to their exhibition, Torpedoed at outlined the story behind the The Glasgow Boys: Pioneers of Scottish Painting. medals created in the wake of the sinking of RMS Lusitania; Trafficking Culture featured new Christmas and New Year opening is now an research into the global traffic in cultural objects; annual event and this year nearly 900 people Duncan Shanks Sketchbooks: The Poetry of visited the Hunterian Art Gallery and Mackintosh Place celebrated Duncan Shanks’s major gift to House over 3 days, taking a last chance to see the University of his entire output of sketchbooks our Cradle of Scotland exhibition. from the past 55 years and The Kangaroo and the Moose featured Stubbs’ Kangaroo, on loan from the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

Ingenious Impressions Printing Workshop with Martin Andrews and Alan May from Reading University 6 7

Night at the ENCOURAGING PARTICIPATION Museum Series Our innovative public events programme, which attracted 5300 This year we attracted a much younger participants in 2015, plays an important part in inspiring our museum demographic by offering two diverse audience to engage with our exhibitions and collections. new Night at the Museum events. Promotion was achieved through social The highly successful weekly Insight Talk Friends Manager, more new members and an media and our website. Each evening programme continued as well as free tours led by expanded events programme. A trip to featured a dramatic light installation to our expert student guides. Events related to our Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum for a showcase the permanent collections, exhibition programme featured lunchtime talks, curator-led tour of A Century of Style: Costume short presentations on research, film screenings, workshops, study days in and Colour 1800 – 1899 was a particular highlight association with the Centre for Open Studies and as was the Duncan Shanks Curator’s Insight film and image projections, live music a Duncan Shanks Salon des Refusés which offered which offered Friends a behind the scenes tour performances, poetry readings and access a rare glimpse at items that did not appear in the with curator Anne Dulau Beveridge. to objects from the collection not normally exhibition. A Lunchtime Lieder concert series took on display. Student volunteers helped place in the Museum as part of the West End Donations from The Friends contributed to the Festival as did our annual Science Sunday family publication of The Hunterian Poems, a new organise, run and evaluate these events day as part of the Glasgow Science Festival. anthology of poems inspired by paintings from which are growing in popularity. Our WW1 The Hunterian collections which presents works Lusitania event attracted over 400 visitors Hunterian Friends by 21 of Scotland’s best poets including Scots The success of The Hunterian Friends scheme Makars Liz Lochhead and Edwin Morgan and and the St Andrew’s Day Exploration and grew again in 2015 with the appointment of a new Glasgow’s Poet Laureate Jim Carruth. Inspiring Scots event over 500. 8 9

GLOBAL IMPACT The Hunterian is one of the world’s great university museums and we have extensive international research networks and partnerships.

In 2015 The Hunterian hosted an international The Whistler Group, led by The Hunterian, hosted university museum strategic exchange meeting an International Whistler Scholars Colloquium, which resulted in a bid for a Leverhulme Trust funded by the Lunder Foundation in June 2015 International Network to support the development with delegates coming from the UK, US, Australia of collections and object-led research and teaching and Europe. initiatives. This will mean the establishment of international exchanges between partner staff and International Loans Programme associated postgraduate students, and Our extensive loans programme creates a global International Summer Schools. audience for Hunterian collections. Twenty four paintings, including works by Crawhall, Guthrie Supported by a Royal Society of and Hornel are highlights in The Glasgow Boys: Research Workshop grant, The Hunterian has Pioneers of Scottish Painting which opened at developed a major research collaboration with the Drents Museum in the Netherlands in September Yale Center for British Art to mark the Tercentenary 2015. Six objects from Captain Cook’s voyages of the birth of William Hunter in 2018. The resulting feature in the Arctic Ambitions exhibition on show exhibition and academic programme in Glasgow at the Anchorage Museum of Art and Washington and at Yale will bring the collections of The State History Museum in the United States of Hunterian to wide international attention. Coinciding America. The first major retrospective of James with the 2018 Hunter Tercentenary, a collaboration McNeill Whistler’s work, an exhibition which with Harvard University Art Museums will highlight toured several major cities in Japan and concluding the parallel Enlightenment developments in in 2015, was significantly enhanced by over 60 pedagogic collecting across the colleges and from Hunterian collections. The exhibition attracted universities of Scotland and North America. 140,000 visitors. In 2015, 1.7 million people visited exhibitions, featuring items on loan from The Hunterian, at some of the world’s finest museums and galleries. 10 11

INSPIRING STUDENTS In supporting high quality teaching and learning and world-leading research, The Hunterian has developed a new student offer over the last few years. This has been recognised for its innovation on a national and international stage.

Cross-disciplinary work related learning collections-based research with public engagement. opportunities are offered to students at all levels This leads to a mutual benefit of gaining new of study, including collections based research, perspectives on their research, and new catalogue development, market research, and interpretations of Hunterian collections, as well as educational and public engagement activities. enhancing public engagement activities. Examples of projects include gallery talks and tours, In 2015, 67 students (51 undergraduate and podcasts, web based exhibitions, installation and 16 postgraduate) were engaged as MUSEs interpretive performance. In addition to individual (Museum University Student Educators), project-based events, there is a lively showcase supporting a programme of gallery tours and event for all the projects each autumn. 2015 was public engagement events. In addition, we significant in extending the disciplinary reach of recruited 40 student volunteers to support our new the programme to include the College of Medical, Night at the Museum events specifically. MUSEs Veterinary and Life Sciences. offered 1,878 tours in 2015, almost a third more than last year. 33 students on a range of postgraduate courses benefited from credit bearing placements with The The Masters programme in Museum Studies has Hunterian in 2015, while Hunterian staff supervised been developed for those wishing to pursue a an additional five voluntary internships – work- career in the cultural heritage sector. In 2015, related learning in support of Graduate Attributes. In 2015 we had twenty students on the programme elected to take the Hunterian Exhibition Development course Since 2014 The Hunterian has become a 1763 students giving them an insight into collections critical partner in the delivery of the joint Glasgow on courses involving museum management, communication and marketing, School of Art / University of Glasgow MLitt course collections. administration and museum education in the in Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art). A key context of developing a special exhibition or component of the programme is the staging of an 67 MUSEs gallery display. A new course Curating the Sciences annual student-led exhibition. In 2015 The Only (Museum Student Educators) was launched in 2015, offered as part of the MSc way to do it is to do it celebrated the experimental delivering gallery tours and in Museum Studies. practices of Black Mountain College and its legacy through post-War American prints. supporting our public University colleagues increasingly recognise the programme. benefits for postgraduate researchers who In 2014/2015, 1763 students were enrolled on participate in our Hunterian Associates Programme. courses using Hunterian collections. Programmes 1,878 gallery tours, Associates (postgraduate researchers from any ranged from biology, zoology and earth sciences almost a third more than discipline) propose a project combining to Critical Studies and Technical Art History. last year. 12 13

EXCHANGING KNOWLEDGE

The Hunterian carries out a vibrant programme of research which casts light on our collections as well as contributing to the research impact of the University of Glasgow. Collections research directly informs and shapes our public galleries, special exhibitions, publications and programming.

Hunterian Visiting Research Fellow Dr Donal Bateson and N Holmes; and of Glasgow School of Physics and The Hunterian launched the William William Hunter’s World: The Art and Astronomy. A related events programme Hunter Visiting Research Fellowship Science of Eighteenth-Century opened up this complex topic to the Programme in early 2014, encouraging Collecting featuring articles by Hunterian wider public. research engagement with its collections curators and edited by retired curator by national and international scholars. Geoff Hancock, Professor Nick Pearce, External partnerships were also a key We welcomed our first Fellow in 2015. Richmond Chair of Fine Arts at the feature of our work in 2015. Cradle of Dr Dominik Huenniger from the University of Glasgow and Hunterian Scotland was a joint exhibition with Lichtenberg-Kolleg at the Georg-August- Deputy Director Mungo Campbell. Perth Museum and Art Gallery and Universitat Gottingen is researching The Art of Fiji was the result of a three connections between the 18th century Key Partnerships year Arts and Humanities Research entomologist J. C. Fabricius and William Four of our exhibitions in 2015 were Council project jointly hosted by the Hunter which will be a significant partnerships with University of Glasgow Sainsbury Research Unit at the University The Hunterian collections are contribution to the William Hunter departments, including our major of East Anglia and the Museum of a rich resource for local, national Tercentenary exhibition and publication exhibitions. Ingenious Impressions was Archaeology and Anthropology at the in 2018. a collaboration with Special Collections University of Cambridge. The Kangaroo and international researchers. in the University Library and Cradle of and the Moose exhibition was part of the In 2015, we received Publications Scotland with the University’s Strathearn Traveller’s Tails project – a joint initiative Hunterian staff contribute to a wide Environs and Royal Forteviot Project between The Hunterian, Royal Museums 2,753 research range of publications including (SERF) based in the Department of Greenwich, The Horniman, The Grant enquiries and visits, catalogues and journals and present at Archaeology. Trafficking Culture Museum of Zoology at UCL and the international conferences and symposia. highlighted research into the illicit trade Captain Cook Memorial Museum in up 64% on the previous year. Notable publications in 2015 include in cultural objects, a partnership with the Whitby. Hunterian staff carried out over The Poetry of Place : Duncan Shanks’s University’s Scottish Centre for Crime Sketchbooks and the Upper Clyde by and Justice. Single Pixel Cameras, our Research Loans 544 teaching hours curator Anne Dulau Beveridge, Science Showcase in 2015 focused on A significant research loans programme, and there were Duncan Shanks, Chris Allan and Duncan cutting-edge research into computational especially in the sciences, saw over Macmillan; Roman and Medieval Coins imaging and light-based technologies 3100 items on loan to institutions locally, 448,155 page views Found in Scotland by senior curator by the Optics Group within the University nationally and internationally. of our online collections search. 14 15

BUILDING COLLECTIONS

The Hunterian is home to one of the finest university collections in the world. The original collection bequeathed by Dr William Hunter has grown substantially and The Hunterian collections now encompass over 1.5 million items. We acquired 332 new items in 2015.

Eardley the finest surviving pairs and the only Henry Lord Darnley in 1565 was A new acquisition, Joan Eardley’s pair in a public collection outside North purchased in 2015 with the generous Seated Boy, went on display in the America. The Sunflower andirons have assistance of the Art Fund. Also added Hunterian Art Gallery in June this year. direct links with James McNeill Whistler to our numismatics collection were Allocated to us under the Cultural and will be incorporated into our Medieval coin hoards from Galston and Gifts Scheme, The Hunterian was the permanent Whistler display, providing a Cambusnethan, a rare find of a rare first Scottish Gallery to benefit from new focus for research and teaching. penny of King Stephen found at the scheme. Seated Boy, painted in Carnwath and an Alloa beggar’s badge, 1955, adds significantly to our existing Hogarth allocated to The Hunterian through representation of Eardley’s work and is New research has revealed that a recent Treasure Trove. an extremely important addition to our acquisition made by The Hunterian may collection of Scottish Art. be an early work by English painter, Meteorites engraver and satirist William Hogarth The Hunterian has an extensive collection Sunflower Andirons (1697-1764). Painted on domestic pine of meteorites dating back to the The Hunterian is now home to a pair of panelling, it illustrates a scene from beginning of the 19th century. A National exceptionally rare gilded brass andirons, Samuel Butler’s 17th century satirical Fund for Acquisitions grant has allowed purchased with support from the poem Hudibras; the same scene appears us to purchase a number of rare and Alexander and Margaret Johnstone in Hogarth’s engraving Hudibras unusual meteorite specimens which will Endowment fund, the Art Fund, the Triumphant. The significance of this help us to further meteorite science, Monument Trust, National Fund for research is far reaching. If accepted, an aid public engagement and increase the Acquisitions, the Flora Kennedy Bequest oil painting will be added to Hogarth’s research value of our meteorite and the Iris Foundation, New York. oeuvre which predates his earliest collections. The study of meteorites is a Described as ‘one of the most important known work, The Beggar’s Opera of major strength at the University of creations of Anglo-Japanese metalwork’ 1728 by some four years. Glasgow, and Hunterian specimens are the Sunflower andirons are of great regularly sampled for research, teaching significance because of their artistic Coins and Medals and public engagement activities. importance, rarity and relevance to The An extremely rare medal commemorating Hunterian collections. This set is one of the marriage of Mary Queen of Scots to 16 17

When laid out flat, WORLD CLASS FACILITIES Hunterian collections AT KELVIN HALL would cover 5 Hampden football Work is well underway on Glasgow’s iconic Kelvin Hall, pitches – transforming it into a major cultural destination with few parallels 1.5 million items covering art, anywhere in the world. archaeology, palaeontology, geology, zoology, entomology, ethnography and numismatics In partnership with Glasgow Life and the National A major task in 2015 has been planning the move Library of Scotland, and with funding from the of our staff and study collections to Kelvin Hall. together with University history. Heritage Lottery Fund and the partners, the new Led by the Collections Management team, every The new Collection Study facilities at Kelvin Hall will allow much improved member of Hunterian staff has been involved in Centre at Kelvin Hall will access to Hunterian collections for research, preparations for the opening of The Hunterian teaching and lifelong learning. A state of the art Collections Study Centre in the autumn of 2016 strengthen and enhance the Collections Study Centre, supported by and new office space a few weeks before that. University of Glasgow’s conservation studio, search rooms, conference reputation for collection based suite and teaching labs will significantly enhance The decant is a challenging project with 1.5 million research and teaching. the University’s reputation for collections based objects and specimens, currently in nine different research and teaching. A digital portal will help storage facilities, being prepared for the move to forge new academic and educational practices, Kelvin Hall. A huge programme of documentation, while new postgraduate programmes offered by packaging, quarantining and final delivery was the Colleges of Arts and Social Sciences will be started in 2015. The process is allowing us to delivered in new teaching and conference spaces. check all our collections and, as a direct result An innovative lifelong learning programme will be of the decant preparation work undertaken this offered by the University’s Centre for Open year, 15,000 new collection records will have been Studies, and training and Continuing Professional created. 15% (700 trays) of our Earth Science Development opportunities for those working in collections have been packed and are ready for the cultural and heritage sector will be established the move. by a new Academy for Cultural and Heritage Skills.

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AN INSPIRING FUTURE With our new Collections Study Centre opening at Kelvin Hall in 2016 and our plans to celebrate William Hunter’s tercentenary in 2018, The Hunterian has some exciting times ahead.

2015 has seen another tremendous year for our The Hunterian continues to offer a rich public visitors, our staff and our students. The rise in programme despite undertaking in parallel a visitors to over 183,000 represents a seven per major capital project that will transform levels cent increase on the previous year and sustained of access and utility of our 1.5 m collections for growth in the demand for our collections and research, teaching and learning. By the Autumn programmes over the past few years. Our footfall of 2016 the new Hunterian Study Centre and is amongst the highest for a university campus conference facilities at Kelvin Hall will be fully museum anywhere in the world. Our headline operational hosting a new curriculum of graduate exhibitions for 2016 Comic Invention, Skeletons curator, lifelong learning, professional development and William Hunter to Damien Hirst promise to and public engagement programmes. The scale break previous records and have already raised of the Kelvin Hall development offers further considerable interest in the press and on social opportunities for The Hunterian to expand its media. The Hunterian’s reputation for innovation public offer, reach out to new audiences and in delivering exhibitions in partnership with other create a truly word class visitor experience. museums, with researchers and with students Inspired by the vision of our founder William Hunter, continues to grow and this practice is setting a we are currently working on a scheme, which new template for collaboration in the museum would re-articulate our galleries and collections at world. Kelvin Hall as a museum of the Enlightenment for the 21st century. This new museum for the history Professor Pamela Robertson, Senior Curator of of knowledge would form a unique and distinctive Mackintosh Studies and Dr Sally-Anne Coupar, contribution to the cultural and educational ecology Curator of Archaeology, moved on from The of the city and of the nation. We look forward to Hunterian in 2015 after many years. Their discussing our plans and ideas with you over the contribution to our work has been immense and course of the next twelve months... we plan to build on the platform they created as we move into the next exciting phase of our David Gaimster, development. Director, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

The Hunterian relied on the support of many individuals, Trusts and Private companies in 2015. In particular we would like to recognise Lyon and Turnbull and Friends of Glasgow University Library, exclusive sponsors of Hunterian Friends and Ingenious Impressions respectively.

We would also like to thank the The Heritage Lottery Fund, University of Glasgow, Scottish Funding Council, Museums Galleries Scotland, Art Fund, National Fund for Acquisitions, Duncan Shanks, Donald Magner, Deborah Bennett, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, The Andrew Tannahill Fund for Scottish Literature, The Pilgrim Trust, The Ferguson Bequest, The Monument Trust and The Hunterian Friends.

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