The Hunterian

The new permanent gallery at The Hunterian Museum, The Antonine Wall: Rome's Final Frontier, has been given the seal of approval by industry publication The Museums Journal.

In the review, Peter Lewis describes it as a 'splendid new gallery' and a 'well-designed and intelligent exposition, which uses the space to great effect'.

The Antonine Wall: Rome's Final Frontier gallery opened in September 2011 and has been very popular with visitors to The Hunterian. The gallery showcases a unique collection of monumental sculpture and other Roman artefacts recovered from the Antonine Wall - one of the UK’s most important Roman monuments. Featuring eighteen distance slabs, on display together for the first time, the gallery also displays a rich array of military and civilian artefacts from the wall, some exclusive to Roman Britain.

Summing up, Peter Lewis says:

'There is so much to admire in this courageous and thought provoking gallery at the Hunterian. It is well worth beating a path to Glasgow to visit it.'

Read the article: Museums Journal Antonine Wall Review 

Reviews have also appeared in The Guardian and the Mail Online:

• Guardian Antonine Wall Review 
• Guardian Blog Antonine Wall 
• Mail Online Antonine Wall Review 

Further information: The Antonine Wall: Rome’s Final Frontier

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Notes to Editors

The Hunterian
Founded in 1807, The Hunterian is Scotland’s oldest public museum. Built on William Hunter’s founding bequest, the collections include scientific instruments used by James Watt and Joseph Lister; outstanding Roman artefacts from the Antonine Wall; major natural sciences holdings; one of the world’s greatest numismatic collections and impressive ethnographic objects from the Pacific Ocean.

The Hunterian is also home to a major art collection ranging from Rembrandt and Chardin to the Scottish Colourists and contemporary art; the world’s largest permanent display of the work of James McNeill Whistler; the largest single holding of the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and The Mackintosh House, the reassembled interiors from his Glasgow home.

There are four Hunterian venues on the University of Glasgow campus - the Hunterian Museum, Hunterian Art Gallery, home to The Mackintosh House, the Zoology Museum and the Anatomy Museum.

The Hunterian
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ

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First published: 27 January 2012