Scotland's Oldest Museum

Founded in 1807, the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow is Scotland’s oldest public museum; an institution which is packed with a truly eclectic array of artefacts.

In this video, I’ll be telling you all about the Hunterian’s history and showing you a selection of the curious items it holds, covering everything from Roman and Egyptian history, to dinosaurs, gruesome medical objects, and much more…
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:25 Dr William Hunter
03:02 Glasgow University
04:37 The Romans in Caledonia
10:44 The Ancient Egyptians and other Civilisations
13:08 Natural History
16:48 Medical History
21:26 Outro
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The Hunterian Museum’s website:
https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/

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Credits:

Hadrian’s Wall: Quisnovus, via Flickr (Creative Commons)

Roman Wax Seal: Rawpixel (Creative Commons)

Thebes Necropolis: Merlin UK

Plesiosaur image: Dimitry Bogdanov

Meteorite image: State Farm (Creative Commons)

Hunterian Museum, London: StoneColdCrazy (Creative Commons)

False Killer Whale: Juan Ortega (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...)

Asteroid belt image: ESO (Creative Commons)

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Sonatina No. 2 in F Major Rondo (Joel Cummins)

No. 1 A Minor Waltz (Esther Abrami)

Spirit of Fire (Jesse Gallagher)

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