Transforming The Hunterian

1. Transforming The Hunterian

3. Strategic Context  University of Glasgow Strategic Objectives: • To deliver excellent research • To deliver excellent student experience • To enhance global reach and reputation The Hunterian Strategic Objectives: • appropriate level of collections care and management • service to the wider research community • high-quality teaching and learning experience to the wider HE community • contribution towards SFC’s widening participation objective

4. William Hunter (1718-83)physician, scientist, collector ‘ • 1718 – born South Lanarkshire, Scotland • Student of University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh • 1764 – physician to Queen Charlotte • 1767 - Fellow of the Royal Society • 1768 - Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, • 1768 - First Professor of Anatomy, Royal Academy of Arts • 1783 – died London. Bequeathed collection to University of Glasgow William Hunter by Allan Ramsay, 1764-65

5. Dr William Hunter: the collector “To acquire knowledge and to communicate it to others has been the pleasure, the business and the ambition of my life” • 30,000 coins and medals • 15,000 anatomical and natural history specimens • 10,000 printed books • 10,000 prints and drawings • 650 manuscripts • 100+ ethnographic artefacts • 50+ oil paintings Jean-Simeon Chardin, A Lady Taking Tea. 1735 Bequeathed by Dr William Hunter. 1783

6. Dr William Hunter: bequest  "to be well and carefully packed up and safely conveyed to Glasgow and delivered to the Principal and Faculty of the College of Glasgow to whom I give and bequeath the same to be kept and preserved by them and their successors for ever... in such sort, way, manner and form as ... shall seem most fit and most conducive to the improvement of the students of the said University of Glasgow."

7. Scotland’s First Public Museum - 1807 Scotland’s oldest public museum designed by William Stark • Britain’s first purpose-built public museum after the Old Ashmolean, Oxford (1683)

8. The Hunterian - 1870 The Hunterian as a paradigm for museum architecture and design Sir George Gilbert Scott’s new University of Glasgow campus, 1870

9. The Hunterian – 20thC Zoology Museum, Graham Kerr building, 1920s • Hunterian Art Gallery and The Mackintosh House by William Whitfield,1980

10. The Collections Today • One of the leading four UK university museums (Ashmolean, Fitzwilliam, Manchester and The Hunterian) • World class resource for the study of material culture, taxonomy and biodiversity • Over 1.3m objects created over 200 years for research, teaching and reference • Recognised as a Collection of National Significance by Scottish Government

11. Art and Historic Collections • Numismatics - 70,000 • Archaeology - 51,000 • World Cultures - 2,500 • General and University History - 2,600 • Scientific Instruments - 5,000 • Prints and Drawings - 37,300 • Paintings – 2,000 • Decorative Arts - 1,700 • Sculpture – 130  'female dress of the Esquimaux from Davis Strait presented by Mr. Jas. Macfie, Surgeon, Rothesay‘. Donations Book, January 1817.

12. Scientific Collections • Mineralogy and Petrology – 162,500 • Palaeontology – 115,000 • Entomology – 518,000 • Zoology – 73,200 • Anatomy and Medical – 7,000 Goliathus goliatus Linnaeus, 1771. Holotype. Bequeathed Dr William Hunter. 1783.

13. Why Emu?

14. Procurement Criteria

15. Procurement Process • >350 technical requirements • Prioritised 1 – 5 • Marked 0 – 10 • 6 suppliers responded • Reference site visits • System demonstrations

16. Documentation Systems

17. Manual Systems Accession register Kunya Quantu (A Map of the Whole World), by Ferdinand Verbiest, 1674

18. Manual Systems Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Fräulein Engelhardt, 1926 - 27 Standard Entry form

19. Photo Library

20. INCA – data entry

21. INCA – retrieval

22. HUNTSEARCH - query

23. HUNTSEARCH - results

24. HUNTSEARCH - display

25. CultureGrid - online

26. UMIS - online

27. Europeana - online

28. INCA – data fields

29. Keywords

30. ENTRY records

31. HUG records

32. STORE records

33. Facilitates University of Glasgow research Stimulates and challenges by exploring cross-disciplinary opportunities Develop collaborations with subject areas Collections and Research Rembrandt van Rijn. The Entombment. c1639.

34. Collection ‘Laboratory’ • Generating new knowledge and context about objects, specimens and cultures represented in the collections • Forging new opportunities for collections-based course options • Enable audiences to better understand the human past, arts and culture and the natural world • Stimulating experimental and interdisciplinary collections research and teaching – from medical humanities to Scottish art and literature. Ian Hamilton Finlay. A Rock Rose. 1971

35. Transforming The Hunterian: the Kelvin Hall development project The Hunterian – beyond 2015

36. Transforming The Hunterian: the Kelvin Hall development project EMu at the Hunterian • Improved web interfaces • Functional image library • Onscreen comparison of results • Onscreen results sorting • Linking between results sets • Reusable results (e.g. downloadable, interoperable) • Front-end interoperability with other systems (e.g. Kelvin Hall, university library) • Improved global access to the collection

37. Transforming The Hunterian: the Kelvin Hall development project EMu at the Hunterian • Integrated museum and gallery collections • Reconnection of all Hunter collections • Consistent loans procedures • Single logical procedures • Single repository for data • Single repository for images and other media • Single repository for research results • Improved physical access

39. Any questions? J. M. Whistler Battersea Reach from Lindsey Houses c.1864-1871