Art Guide St Andrews University Heritage Collection

St Andrews University Heritage Collection

Unversity of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AL (map)
Telephone: 01334 462417

See also: Scotland

Background information
St Andrews University Collections are not housed in a museum building but are dispersed throughout the University's buildings. The collections are accessible to the public by appointment only. There are no admission charges. Parts of the collection are exhibited every year, usually in the St. Andrew's Museum (the town's museum). There are 9 separate collections: Geology, Chemistry, Ethnography, Amerindian, Historic Scientific Instruments (Physics Department), Psychology, Bell Pettigrew Museum (Zoology), Anatomy and Pathology, and the Heritage Collections. The latter includes paintings, silver, archeology, furniture and a collection of communion tokens. The University Library also owns an important photographic collection.

General information
Admission: By appointment. No charge for admission
How to find us: From Edinburgh via Forth Road Bridge, M90, A91. . Leuchars

Particularly interesting for Archaeology Clocks and Watches Drawings and Watercolours Ecclesiastical Art Ethnography Furniture and Woodwork Geology Natural History Paintings Photography Silver Scientific Instruments

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Highlights of the Collection

Allen, Elias Mariner's Astrolabe, 1616

Bough, Sam The Bass Rock after a Storm

Cole, Benjamin Orrery, ca. 1750

Cole, Humphrey Armillary Sphere 1582

Cole, Humphrey The Great Astrolabe, 1575 ; The Great Astrolabe, 1575

Duncan, John Mary, Queen of Scots, at Fotheringhay

Edwards, Peter Struther Arnott

Knibb, Joseph Matched pair of regulator clocks ca. 1673

Knibb, Joseph Split second clock, ca. 1673 ; Split second clock, ca. 1673

Lely, Sir Peter Portrait of Archbishop Sharp

Orchardson, Sir William Quiller Wishart's Last Exhortation

Peploe, Samuel J. Ceres

Raeburn, Sir Henry Portrait of Francis Nicholl

Short, James Gregorian reflecting telescope, 1736

Wilkie, Sir David Portrait of 2nd Viscount Melville

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no mention of the two major peter edwards portraits of Struther Arnott

- 2001-06-17

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