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<< Our Photo Pages >> Marischal Museum - Museum in Scotland in Aberdeenshire

Submitted by cosmic on Wednesday, 02 February 2011  Page Views: 22435

MuseumsSite Name: Marischal Museum Alternative Name: Anthropological Museum, Marischal College
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.369 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Aberdeenshire Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Aberdeen
Map Ref: NJ943063
Latitude: 57.147550N  Longitude: 2.095836W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 Destroyed Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Marischal Museum
Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : The impressive frontage of Marischal College - one of longest granite facades in the world. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Former museum in Aberdeen. The replacement is the King's Museum which doesn't have the same quantity of prehistoric objects on display. For this reason we've kept this page open to show some of the items that were on display - and are now sadly in storage.

They have a new virtual entry point at www.abdn.ac.uk/museums, allowing look up of individual items, searching by object type, location or key words. More than 125,000 items have been added to the on-line database from collections held at Marischal Museum, the Zoology Museum, the Anatomy Museum, Geology collection, the Herbarium, Scientific Instrument collection and Pathology and Forensic Medicine collection.

Some suggested searches are carved stones, pictish stones or picts, beaker, axehead, carved stone ball.

Note: Our designation of 'destroyed' is to indicate that the museum is not there any more - clearly the building and collections still exist - albeit not all on display!
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Marischal Museum
Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Carved ball from Aberdeenshire (unspecified area). (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Carved ball from Kildrummy area. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Tillytarmont 1 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Tavelty Beaker found in cist in 1983 at NJ788172. It contained some teeth and bone fragments. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Cairnton Farm Pictish Stone discovered in 2001 near Newmachar. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Tillytarmont 6 - very weathered.

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Tillytarmont 5 (another view) found 1972 featuring Eagle and Beast.

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Tillytarmont 5 (again) found 1972 featuring Eagle and Beast.

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Tillytarmont 5 found 1972 featuring Eagle and Beast

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Tillytarmont Trio (1,5 & 6)

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Shale Hat Pins found on Hill of Crichie along with bronze ferrule and bronze turret. When the hoard was divided the bronze objects went to the British Museum (surprise, surprise) and the finder was left with these which he donated to Marischal Museum!

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : St.Ringin's close-up

Marischal Museum
Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : St. Ringin's Stone is thought to be the base of a cross. It ws found near Cairn o'Mount (NO649806).

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Dunnicaer - one of a set of stones - the others are at Bennachaer

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Dead Man's Howe double disc and rod

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Dead Man's Howe found at Wantonwells (NJ61452745). it shows a double disc and rod.

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Cairnmton Farm close-up. There is a crescent, a V-rod and a triple disc.

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Cairnton and St.Ringin's Stone Pictish Stones

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Beaker from Cist found in 1951 at Auchrynie Farm (NJ964525). The cist contained a skull and other bone fragments as well as this beaker. The cist is now in the University Botanical Gardens (another trip!)>

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Carved ball (2) from Aberdeenshire (unspecified area).

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Carved ball from Skelmuir area.

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Carved ball from Kemnay area.

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Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Carved ball from Hill of Logie (Logie Buchan) area. This one is carved out of granite! It is dated around 2500BC.

Marischal Museum
Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic : Carved ball from Aboyne area.

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 211m N 354° Tillytarmont 1* Class I Pictish Symbol Stone (NJ94280651)
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 2.0km NNW 349° King's Museum* Museum (NJ9391608216)
 2.7km SE 144° Tullos Cairn* Cairn (NJ959041)
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 3.0km SSE 166° Tullos Hut Circles* Ancient Village or Settlement (NJ950034)
 3.0km SSE 150° Baron's Cairn* Cairn (NJ958037)
 3.3km SE 142° Crab's Cairn* Cairn (NJ963037)
 3.3km SSE 164° Cat Cairn* Cairn (NJ952031)
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 4.9km SW 215° Dunnicaer 1* Class I Pictish Symbol Stone (NJ91500232)
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 9.5km SSW 202° Cairnwell* Stone Circle (NO90649750)
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Re: Marischal Museum by Anonymous on Thursday, 02 June 2016
The excitement of viewing Marisichal museum over 20 years ago remains with me . What a shame it has been moth-balled to satisfy current notions of Progress.
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    Re: Marischal Museum by Anonymous on Friday, 15 September 2023
    My father used to take me and my siblings to this museum regularly - in the 1970s.
    And sometimes climb the Mitchell tower, which was an adventure!

    One of the best museums I’ve ever known. Superb exhibits, well chosen, and beautifully presented. I remember the Tibetan prayer wheel, the Chinese bound foot in formaldehyde, the opium smoking kit, the fantastic carved canoe with no metal nails, but all wooden butterfly joints, the life-sized outline of the blue whale on the ceiling. Superb. We will not see it’s like again.
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    Re: Marischal Museum by Anonymous on Friday, 15 September 2023
    My father used to take me and my siblings to this museum regularly - in the 1970s.
    And sometimes climb the Mitchell tower, which was an adventure!

    One of the best museums I’ve ever known. Superb exhibits, well chosen, and beautifully presented. I remember the Tibetan prayer wheel, the Chinese bound foot in formaldehyde, the opium smoking kit, the fantastic carved canoe with no metal nails, but all wooden butterfly joints, the life-sized outline of the blue whale on the ceiling. And so much more. Superb. We will not see it’s like again.
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Re: Marischal Museum by Anonymous on Thursday, 02 June 2016
The excitement of viewing Marisichal museum over 20 years ago remains with me . What a shame it has been moth-balled to satisfy current notions of
Progress.
Donald Ross Fraser,Ottawa. Canada [age 89]

drfras@gmail.com
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Re: Marischal Museum by cosmic on Sunday, 30 May 2010
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Marischal Museum is currently mothballed whilst the City Council convert the main building into its new offices.
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Re: Marischal Museum by Anonymous on Saturday, 22 May 2010
I con confirm that the museum is currently closed
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Marischal Museum by cosmic on Thursday, 01 January 2009
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Regrat to report that the museum is currently closed while efforts are made to find a new site for it at the University of Aberdeen main complex at King's College.

The Marischal College site (with the second longest granite frontage in Europe) has been leased to Aberdeen City Council for its new headquarters building. Hopefully their current headquarters ( a grotesque multistorey office block which stands across the road from Marischal college) while be demolished in due course.
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