Museums - Hunterian Museum

The Hunterian Museum was founded on the substantial collections of William Hunter, which were bequeathed to the University of Glasgow in 1783 along with funds for the construction of a suitable museum building to house them. Designed by William Stark and opened in 1807, the Hunterian is Scotland's oldest museum. It now comprises four sites across the university campus––devoted respectively to anthropology and science, British art, anatomy, and zoology––which collectively contain just over a million objects and specimens.
The main Hunterian Museum contains collections in archaeology and world cultures, medical science, numismatics, Roman and Egyptian artifacts, Captain Cook materials, and more. The collections are particularly strong in Roman material and Scottish history and anthropology, as well as ethnographic art. The first objects in the museum's collection of ethnographic material were "first contact" items acquired by William Hunter from Captain Cook's voyages to the South Seas and northwest coast of North America in 1769–80. It also includes Oceanic works obtained by missionaries in the Pacific during the nineteenth century, as well as a collection of several hundred Asante goldweights.