Transforming The Hunterian

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

William Hunter (1718-83)physician, scientist, collector

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• 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

Dr William Hunter: the collector

• 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 paintingsJean-Simeon Chardin, A Lady Taking Tea. 1735

Bequeathed by Dr William Hunter. 1783

“To acquire knowledge and to communicate it to others has been the pleasure, the business and the ambition of my life”

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."

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)

The Hunterian - 1870

The Hunterian as a paradigm for museum architecture and design

Sir George Gilbert Scott’s new University of Glasgow campus, 1870

The Hunterian – 20thC

Zoology Museum, Graham Kerr building, 1920s

Hunterian Art Gallery and The Mackintosh House by William Whitfield,1980

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

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.

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.

Why Emu?

No Selection Criteria Weighting

1 Technical Specifications Priority 1 (Appendix 6) 8% 20%

2 Technical Specifications Priority 2 (Appendix 6) 5%

3 Technical Specifications Priority 3 (Appendix 6) 4%

4 Technical Specifications Priority 4 (Appendix 6) 2%

5 Technical Specifications Priority 5 (Appendix 6) 1%

6 Functional Requirements (Appendix 7) 20%

7 Sector experience (Appendix 8) 5%

8 Software cost (Appendix 8) 5% 16%

9 Running costs (annual & lifespan) (Appendix 8) 5%

10 Installation & training cost (Appendix 8) 6%

11 Delivery & installation services (Appendix 8) 6%

12 Support & training services (Appendix 8) 8%

13 Reference sites (Appendix 8) 5%

14 On-site demonstration 20%

Procurement Criteria

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

Procurement Process

Documentation Systems

Manual Systems

Accession registerKunya Quantu (A Map of the Whole World), by Ferdinand Verbiest, 1674

Manual Systems

Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Fräulein Engelhardt, 1926 - 27

Standard Entry form

Photo Library

INCA – data entry

INCA – retrieval

HUNTSEARCH - query

HUNTSEARCH - results

HUNTSEARCH - display

CultureGrid - online

UMIS - online

Europeana - online

INCA – data fields Field Name Field Description Field Type Controlled field

CATNO Catalogue number Character NoPARTNO Catalogue part number (obsolete and not used) Numeric NoCOMPNO Component number (obsolete and not used) Numeric NoSTORELOC Current storage location Character NoSNAME Simple name Character NoNAME Description or title Character NoSPM_FORM Specimen form Character NoLSIZE Label size Numeric NoMATERIALS Materials Character NoDIMENSIONS Dimensions Character NoWEIGHT Weight Character NoSEE_ALSO Associated catalogue numbers Memo NoSTOREDWITH Catalogue number of specimens stored in single tray/box Character No

NO_PARTS Number of parts associated with the catalogue entry Character NoNO_COMPS Number of components associated the catalogue with entry Character NoMORPH Specimen morphology Character NoSEX Specimen sex Character YesAGE Specimen age at death Character NoMARKS Marks on the object Memo NoDENOM Denomination Character NoCURRENCY Currency Character NoFRAME Dimensions of any frame or mount Character NoCONDCODE Single letter code indicating overall condition Character YesCONDITION Current condition notes Memo NoCONDDATE Date of condition entry Date NoSTATUS Type status Character NoRECORDER Identification of record creator Character NoRECDATE Date of record creation Date NoCHANGER Identification of record editor Character NoCDATE Date of record editing Date NoRECSTATE Status of object/specimen in Hunterian Character YesRDATE Date of last change in RECSTATE Date NoFLAG Spare field for admin use Character NoLABEL Spare field for admin use Character NoDOCN Type and location of associated documentation Character NoNOTES Any notes relating to object/specimen Memo No

Keywords

ENTRY records

HUG records

STORE records

• 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.

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

Transforming The Hunterian: the Kelvin Hall development projectThe Hunterian – beyond 2015

Transforming The Hunterian: the Kelvin Hall development projectEMu 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

Transforming The Hunterian: the Kelvin Hall development projectEMu 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

Any questions?

J. M. Whistler Battersea Reach from Lindsey Houses c.1864-1871