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600 years of collecting

Explore the University of St Andrews' photographs, artworks, objects, manuscripts, muniments and digitised rare books.


Exhibit: Digital storytelling

Libraries and Museums have developed an innovative new tool which enables anyone to access our digitised objects and to create interactive presentations with material from University collections. This tool has been developed by the University of St Andrews and Mnemoscene using The Universal Viewer, with support from the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund.

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Featured exhibits

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The St Andrews Qur’an manuscript

Showcase of recent research on the richly illuminated manuscript known as the St Andrews Qur’an.

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Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion

In the 1880s Eadweard Muybridge developed a multiple-camera technique for recording the sequential movement of humans and animals.

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The Fossils of Dura Den

Take a journey through the history of the Dura Den Fossils from discovery to display.