Golden aureus depicting head of Augustus
Ides of March denarius, featuring daggers and freedman’s cap
Always a thrill and a delight to have the opportunity to run coin handling sessions with my undergraduates and postgraduates #romanhistory #numismatics #idesofmarch #hunterianmuseum #fallofrome @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social
#MuseumMatters ➡️ #HunterianMuseum #London ⬇️
⚕️art and science of #surgery from ancient times to the present day. Including the extraordinary specimen collection of the C18th surgeon-anatomist #JohnHunter⚕️
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Chicken head, with human tooth transplanted into comb, c.1763-1778, Hunterian Collection. RCSHC/P 56
#HunterianMuseum #MedicalHistory #HistMed #HistoryofMedicine #FreeMuseum
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Drawing of a thylacine. Sketch is black and white ink with multicolored fur. This carnivorous marsupial is shown standing on all fours. Writing on sketch reads: “Drawn from taxidermied thylacine at Hunterian Museum. Glasgow, August 2025.”
![Drawing of cheerful dimetrodon. Inked in black and white with shading in multicolored crosshatching. Text on drawing reads “This is from a dimetridon [sic…I misspelled the name of this critter] cutout mod at Hunterian museum. Original is by Vernon Edwards. The models were sold at the Natural History Museum in the mid-1920s.”
At the bottom of the page I wrote: “feeling sick, so I stayed in Coatbridge.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rwpa6clgzwo55a2dqfqiaico/bafkreiajmmupazs23prsgxxwsqbdmh6vah3ulksqbq5pvoloyaf7tcdixq)
Drawing of cheerful dimetrodon. Inked in black and white with shading in multicolored crosshatching. Text on drawing reads “This is from a dimetridon [sic…I misspelled the name of this critter] cutout mod at Hunterian museum. Original is by Vernon Edwards. The models were sold at the Natural History Museum in the mid-1920s.” At the bottom of the page I wrote: “feeling sick, so I stayed in Coatbridge.”
Just got back from a wonderful trip the the UK with my children. Lots of museums, lots of exploring. In Glasgow we went to the #HunterianMuseum where there is a really good natural history collection on display. Including some drawings I did here. #SciArt #PaleoArt
The installation of the Long Gallery took two months and involved nine staff members, along with numerous ladders, trolleys, and crates.
The Long Gallery displays over 2000 of John Hunter's original preparations.
#behindthescenesatthemuseum #museumwork #specimens #hunterianmuseum #londonmuseum
The roots of a tree on Kirklee Place in Glasgow flowing like slow-moving molasses through the bars of an old iron fence.
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#glasgow #trees #nature #tree #lordkelvin #science #hunterianmuseum
Finishing the teaching year with more coin handling with the Hunterian collection #ancienthistory #numismatics #romanhistory #hunterianmuseum
#hunterianmuseum #ucl #uclpathologymuseum #royalfreehospital #museumstudies #museology #museumethics #pathologymuseum #anatomymuseum #londonmuseums #londonhistory
Blackwork tattoo based on a crab in Hunterian museum
Blackwork tattoo based on a crab in Hunterian museum
Blackwork tattoo based on a crab in Hunterian museum
Calcified crabs in Hunterian museum
Hunterian calcified crab in tattoo form! Thank you for your trust!:)
#tattoosky #tattooartist #hunterianmuseum
Daily attempt to lighten the mood. No matter what you find in the news, nothing makes you blink more than a Roman relief of a man apparently either pulling something out of, or conceivably inserting it into, another man's backside.... ;-) #HunterianMuseum
An altar to Diana and Apollo which was dedicated by Marcus Cocceius Firmus - a Centurion of the Second Augustan Legion. It was found at Auchendavy Roman Fort in East Dunbartonshire. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanScotland #HunterianMuseum
Blackwork tattoo on back, work in progress
Full progress on the Hunterian crab from today. Since I was standing the whole time, both me and me client had something die in us today 🥲 but I just love working on this!!
#blackwork #tattooart #hunterianmuseum
🏦 The most special museum you'll ever visit.
#London #streetphotography #sooc #fujifilm #photography #museum #hunterianmuseum #londonlife
As a result, this event, along with a few others around the same time, can be seen as marking the start of interplanetary science and an accurate understanding of the origins of our solar system.
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#glasgow #possil #meteorite #spacescience #hunterianmuseum #glasgowhistory
In April 1804, a meteorite landed at High Possil in Glasgow. This was the first one ever recorded in Scotland, and one of the first to be scientifically verified as coming from space anywhere in the world.
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#glasgow #possil #meteorite #spacescience #hunterianmuseum #glasgowhistory
#Wunderkammer in literal meaning: @GlasgowUni's #HunterianMuseum. Best w/ @TheGlenmorangie served here today. 😉 http://t.co/UJW3ZxHnl4
