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MuseumsSite Name: King's MuseumCountry: Scotland
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County: Aberdeenshire Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Aberdeen
Map Ref: NJ9391608216
Latitude: 57.164756N Longitude: 2.10223W
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
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King’s Museum lies at the heart of the University of Aberdeen's campus in Old Aberdeen. It moved to its new location in 2013. As well as being Scotland's newest museum, it may also be the oldest as its origins lie in a museum collection - formerly the Marischal Museum - established in King's College in 1727.
King’s Museum has exhibitions changing every few months to display these collections, some involving students and academic staff collaborating with the museum to bring recent research to a wider audience. With a service for schools, evening lectures and other events, such as the annual ‘Night at the Museum’, the museum is a place where objects and ideas are explored in ways that would have been inconceivable to those who have collected and curated the collection over the past centuries.
The museum is a friendly place, where passers-by, students, staff and tourists can drop in for a break; a place of stimulation and reflection in the middle of the busy campus.
Opening Hours: Monday – Friday 10am -4pm; Saturday 11am -4pm
Contact:
King's Museum, University of Aberdeen
Old Aberdeen Town House
High Street
Aberdeen AB24 3EN
email: kingsmuseum@abdn.ac.uk
Tel: 01224 274330
Official Website: www.abdn.ac.uk/museums
Previous displays have included '100 Curiosities' from the museum collection with each item selected by a different person. Interestingly, megalithic material did rather well with three carved stone balls, iron age glass beads, bronze age neck-ring, neolithic burial beaker, flint arrowheads, palaeolithic hand axe and a jadeite axe head all having been chosen for display.
The museum collection has 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 the former 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.
Half-ton Pictish Stone moved into place for the exhibition Crafting Kingdoms: The Rise of the Northern Picts - more details in our comments
Note: New Open Access ebook (and print book): The Circular Archetype in Microcosm: The Carved Stone Balls of Late Neolithic Scotland by Chris Stewart-Moffitt, details in our forum
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