Museums

University of St Andrews, Museum Collections Unit
Museum Collections Unit
University Library
North Street
St Andrews
Fife
KY16 9TR
website : Institution Website
information : hcr1@st-andrews.ac.uk
tel : 01334 462417

Collections contain over 112,000 artefacts including fine and decorative art, textiles, furniture and numismatics, ethnography and archaeology. The University’s science collections include an extensive range of geology specimens as well as items relating to the teaching of physics and astronomy, chemistry, psychology, anatomy and pathology, and the Bell Pettigrew Museum collection of Natural History.

The Bell Pettigrew Museum of Natural History is open June to September (during the University's summer vacation: please cntact us to check exact dates).


opening months
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
opening hours
mon : closed
tues : 2:00 to 5.00
wed : closed
thurs : closed
fri : 2.00 to 5.00
sat : closed
sun : closed


The University is closed from Christmas Eve to 5/6 January.


admission
adult : n / a
child : n / a
senior citizen : n / a
student : n / a
other concession : n / a
family : n / a
group : n / a
other : n / a

facilities
Toilets : Yes
Disabled Access : Yes
Cafe / Restaurant : No
Hearing Loop : No
Gift Shop : No
Car Park : No

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Collections
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Wax model of hand by Tramond, Paris
Wax model of hand by Tramond, Paris. Late 19th century. Used for teac... more
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Hand coloured herbal
Hand coloured herbal. Copy of Dioscorides' De Medicinali Materia. Prin... more
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Taxiphote
Taxiphote. Early 20th century. Cabinet stereoscopic viewer used in psy... more
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De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem
Skeleton from Andreas Versalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Sept... more
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Watercolour plate of dissection of trunk
Watercolour plate of dissection of trunk and inguinal region drawn by ... more
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Ambroise Pare's Opera Chirurgica
Image of dislocated shoulder treatment from Ambroise Pare's Opera Chir... more