Site Represents a site. Show Point true Prim Media 568 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Museums of the University of St Andrews Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived mathematicalycurious Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 322 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.342909568719904,-2.7939954400062565; Description An account of the resource The Museums of the University of St Andrews consist of two museums and a Collections Centre. The Wardlaw Museum houses most of the university’s collection, with displays focusing both on the history of the university itself, as well as the research and inventions it has produced. The Bell Pettigrew Museum is specialised on natural history with displays predominantly consisting of taxidermy, fossils, and skeletons. Across these museums, the university owns and displays an impressive 115, 000 artefacts and specimens . The museums include multiple artefacts of mathematical relevance, such as a set of Napier’s bones, geometry models used historically by students at the university, and, most famously, the Great Astrolabe created by Humphrey Cole and likely obtained for the university by the mathematician James Gregory. <p>For more information on the museums, see <a href="https://maths.curious-sta.org/musa/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>.</p> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource yl238 Subject The topic of the resource Astronomy,Botany,Chemistry,Geology,Mathematics,Medicine,Natural History,Natural Philosophy,Philosophy,Photography,Physics Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT