As a new cohort of students are preparing to travel to St Andrews this weekend to begin their academic careers we've been reflecting on where it all began! Six hundred and three years ago th...
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The story behind the type of academic dress I'm going to look at in this final blog about our costume collection dates back to the 1800s, and a time when only men were admitted to universities. ...
Last week we were celebrating Graduation at the University of St Andrews and it was a great opportunity to see lots of different types of academic dress. However, this academic dress we see t...
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As MUSA is a university museum a large part of our costume collection consists of academic dress, but this doesn't just mean the black gowns and coloured hoods of graduation. There are many oth...
Although it’s been a bit chilly in St Andrews this week, Rebecca and I decided to brave the weather in order to bring you something slightly different for the last of our A Scottish Palette-ins...
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It was all hands on deck at the Collections Unit last week as we prepared for our new temporary exhibition at the Gateway Galleries, A Scottish Palette. What’s it all about? This exhibition hi...
https://museumoftheuniversityofstandrews.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/mixing-up-a-scottish-palette/
Hello again! We have more to tell you about are fabulous exhibition, Treasured, which is on right now at the Gateway Galleries, St Andrews, displaying some of the University of St Andrews’ hidd...
I was recently asked to provide another University department with further information about one of our finest treasures - the Mace of the Faculty of Art. This mace is one of three Mediaeval mace...
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As you’ve driven by the Gateway building on your way out of St Andrews for the last week or so, you may have noticed a new banner hanging out front emblazoned with the words ‘Fantastic Creatu...
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The Collection of Historic Scientific Instruments contains over 900 items and this guest blog post come from one of our student volunteers, Suzie Hill, who has been helping organise this collecti...
https://museumoftheuniversityofstandrews.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/optics-in-focus/