Glasgow & Clyde Valley

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Collins Gallery

The Collins Gallery is an integral part of the University of Strathclyde presenting a cultural interface between the University and the city. Located close to Glasgow 's city centre, only five minutes' walk from the railway stations, prime shopping areas and the Gallery of Modern Art, the Collins attracts some 60,000 visitors per year from the local and tourist communities.


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Glasgow College of Art

Internationally recognised as one of Britain's foremost higher education institutions for the study and advancement of fine art, design and architecture, the GSA is a small, specialist and highly focused international community of artists, designers and architects. It celebrates the heritage of Charles Rennie Mackintosh through to today's students, graduates and staff, with an impact on the social, cultural and economic life of Glasgow, Scotland and beyond.


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Greater Glasgow NHS Board Archive

The collection consists principally of the archives of the hospitals in the Glasgow area and in Paisley. These date back to the late eighteenth century when Glasgow Royal Infirmary was established.


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Hunterian Art Gallery

The Hunterian is home to a wide range of collections covering art, humanities and natural sciences. From 2006, a new medical display will celebrate Glasgow's rich medical heritage, exploring major and lesser-known figures in medicine and showcasing their achievements.


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Hunterian Museum

The Hunterian is home to a wide range of collections covering art, humanities and natural sciences. From 2006, a new medical display will celebrate Glasgow’s rich medical heritage, exploring major and lesser-known figures in medicine and showcasing their achievements.


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Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow

The College Archive contains the administrative records of College dating from 1602 onwards. It also houses important collections relating to physicians, surgeons and dentists including the papers of Sir William Macewen and Joseph, Lord Lister.


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Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow

Founded in 1599, the RCPSG welcomes professionals and the general public to visit the College Library. The collection of printed books has been built up over the last three hundred years and includes medical works dating from the 15th Century.


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University of Glasgow Archive Services

Although the founding charter of 1451 provided for the teaching of medicine, formal teaching did not begin on a regular basis at the University of Glasgow until 1714. Records documenting the people and events surrounding the University’s medical history are available to all by appointment.


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University of Glasgow, Anatomy Museum

The Anatomy Museum is a Departmental Museum housing William Hunter’s 18th century anatomical collection and other teaching collections. Spirit-preserved tissues, bones, anatomical casts and models and plastinated preparations explain and illustrate human anatomy.


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University of Glasgow, Library Special Collections Department

Built up over a period of more than 500 years by purchase, gift and bequest, the collections now contain more than 200,000 manuscript items and around 200,000 printed works, including over 1,000 incunabula.