Visiting the hunterian museum in glasgow | Interesting facts about the museum and things to do in the surrounding area 🏫

“The hunterian ” covers the Hunterian Museum, the Hunterian Art Gallery, the Mackintosh House, the Zoology Museum and the Anatomy Museum, all located in various buildings on the main campus of the University of Glasgow in the west end of Glasgow. Dedicated to william hunter. Around 1765 William Hunter started collecting widely across a range of themes beyond medicine and anatomy: books, manuscripts, prints, coins, shells, zoological specimens, and minerals. I went along and have taken some pictures for my blog, there was so much stuff I only got to photograph a f

Lovely entry hall 👌 plenty of natrual light comes into the museum, you can easily get lost trying to find the entrance to this hallway !

😁Things to do in the surrounding area 😁

OK as mentioned in the title I wanted to list a few other cool things to do in the area if you were going to pay a visit here.

The lion and unicorn staircase – This is located within the grounds of the university

Kelvingrove park & Kelvingrove bandstand– 2 minuet walk from the entrance of glasgow university, a stunning park with a skater park, fountain and a old bandstand that always has events on throughout the year. If you are a visitor to the city this park is highly recommended as there are plenty of stunning viewpoints on the hills of this park.

Offshore coffee house – Indoor and outdoor seating areas with free wifi, 5 minuet walk from glasgow university.

University cafe – A famous cafe on byres road named ” university cafe” as all the uni students have visited over the years, although it is not inside the glasgow university its at least a ten minuet walk from the uni.

kelvingrove cafe – This is a hidden gem cafe at the bottom of the kelvingrove museum, if you look out the glass windows of this cafe you cans see the university. There are soups of the day and cakes of the day on sale here.