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  • Collection: Museum: University of St Andrews

The Virtual Orkney North Isles is one of the mediums created to build a shared exhibit virtual platform. The galleries and virtual tours are available online, displaying the heritage of all six isles so that Orkney communities and users from around…

Shezad Dawood works across disciplines including film, painting, neon, sculpture and Virtual Reality to deconstruct systems of image, language, site and narrative. His practice often involves collaboration and knowledge exchange, mapping across…

Before the days of tractors, horses were the main power for agriculture as well as transport. This is one of a pair of horse collar harnesses which is on display at the Heritage Centre.

This Viking rune stone was discovered in 1995 during the rebuilding of a collapsed dry stane dyke. One edge showing Norse Runes. This is a broken fragment of a group of words. The Sanday stone bears the name of the engineer Oskati or Askati. The…

The Appiehouse Stone is a Pictish slab found under the floor during renovation of a local Sanday house in2011. After the stone was sent south for conservation it was returned to Orkney and is now on loan to us.

This driftwood, showing beaver teeth marks, was found at the point of Elsness in 1915.

Bell from the Concordia wrecked on Riv 9th November 1809

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Unguentarium produced from terracotta, thought to be used for carrying oil or perfume. Roman.

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Carved stone head of male figure. The hair and diadem are evident. Some damage noticeable around the facial features but in very good condition otherwise. Late Antique.

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Drone footage of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Today the remains of the St Andrews Cathedral, overlooking the north sea at the edge of Fife only hint at a historic past. 700 years ago the building was one of the largest and most impressive religious buildings in Europe. The building of this once…

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St Andrew's Castle is a ruin located in the coastal Royal Burgh of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland. The castle sits on a rocky promontory overlooking a small beach called Castle Sands and the adjoining North Sea. Property of Historic Environment…

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A study in Flight. Fife-based photographer Kit Martin and University of St Andrews students exhibition. Exploring the idea of flight, Let’s Take Flight will give visitors the chance to “fly” over St Andrews, experiencing the sensation of swooping…

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Vibrant research community with wide expertise: literature, archaeology, reception, philosophy, ancient slavery and imperialism. University of St Andrews.

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The Museum of the University of St Andrews (MUSA) displays to the public some of the treasures from the University's collection of over 115,000 artefacts.

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The Bell Pettigrew Museum is the University of St Andrews zoology museum. It is a rare survival of a Victorian teaching museum, and wonderfully atmospheric. The displays, which include examples of several extinct species, are arranged to allow the…

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The Museum of the University of St Andrews (MUSA) displays to the public some of the treasures from the University's collection of over 112,000 artefacts.

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Through a Glass Darkly - Digitisation of the Bridges Collection (a collection of Cypriot antiquities held at the University of St Andrews). Funded by the Leventis Foundation. Project directors: Rebecca Sweetman (School of Classics) & Alison…
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