l The Hunterian is the legacy of Dr William Hunter (1718-1783), a pioneering obstetrician and anatomy teacher with a passion for collecting.
l Dr Hunter, who studied at the University of Glasgow, was physician to Queen Charlotte.
l He bequeathed his very large private collection to the university in 1783, along with money to create a suitable museum.
l The Hunterian opened its doors in 1807.
l It includes more than 900 paintings and 40,000 works on paper including prints, drawings, pastels and watercolours.
l It has an unrivalled collection of the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, including 1000 works on paper.
l The Hunterian's Whistler Collection comprises 80 oil paintings, several hundred drawings, watercolours and pastels, and more than 1500 impressions of his etchings and lithographs.
l The collection has more than 200 works by the Glasgow Boys.
l It also has 130 paintings, works on paper and sculptures by the Scottish Colourists, Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883–1937), John Duncan Fergusson (1874–1961), George Leslie Hunter (1879–1931) and Samuel John Peploe (1831–1935)
l The archaeology collection includes the finest body of Roman material in the west of Scotland including altars, gravestones and artefacts from forts on the Antonine Wall. This collection has more than 22,000 objects.
l The Hunterian houses 70,000 coins, medals, tokens and related objects.
l It has more than 120,000 rock and mineral specimens, as well as around 1500 cut gemstones, and 70 meteorites.
l The Zoology Collections contain 600,000 specimens, of which 90% are insects.
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