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News, Events, Exhibitions and a look at the extensive and varied collections cared for by the University of Aberdeen Collections. uoacollections@abdn.ac.uk www.abdn.ac.uk/collections

A man examines a crucifix while reading a book in a room dark except for the light from a reading lamp. Unbeknownst to him, a grotesque face with large eyes lurks behind him watching.
Photo of a desktop full of screens, monitors, laptops, tablets all showing different online exhibitions
A very pretty regal looking taxidermy tiger in a display case
Snippets of two historical maps and a hand drawn sailing ship
An animal skeleton looking at a colourful crab
close up of the rounded axe head
close up of the title page of justified sinner
a long, handcarved wooden whisk. There are small holes at the bottom of the whisk, presumably to allow for frothing. There is a long handle, which is used to spin between the hands
Photo of skeletons looking at an empty black and white colour in paper of a crab
A graduation ceremony walking out of a hall. The two leaders a carrying a silver mace each.
Silver mace. The bowl is embossed with the College arms and those of its founder, Bishop Elphinstone. The head is formed as an imperial crown supporting an orb and a cross over a plate with the Royal Arms.
A square of red tartan carpet. There is also some Green, blue and yellow in it.
A piece of waste glass with a shiny top made of mostly yellow with some blue
A painting of a bleak winter landscape covered in snow with some sheep in a field
a statue of a creature with human and animal parts
a model of a green steam engine
a round black textured plate
flag with black background and 5 stripes diagonally across in green, blue, white, yellow and red made from items in the collections
Map with illustrations of ships attacking a coastal fort with cannon fire.
Two volunteers, one using a magnifier to check and pest traps and the other with a clipboard
watercolour painting of a green grasshopper
A cloth bound book. An illustration in gold foil depicts a cricket reading from a book surrounded by other insects, plants and a spider in a web.
painting of loch awe - A dirt track leads us into the picture across desolate moorland to a ruined castle that is set off by a backdrop of mist covered mountains. There is also a puff of smoke indicating a lone cottage in the distance
black and white illustration of flowers with insects on them
photo of three moths with brown and cream spotted upper wings and orange and brown lower wings.
black and white photo of Aberdeen Harbour with lots of ships with tall masts
A man in a display case placing a whale jaw
Stereoscopic photo of the Old Man of Storr, a large rock pointing straight up
front view of the turtle
part of the manuscript showing flying fish
Two people cleaning a whale jaw
Illustration of different types of shells
Painting of sheep in a snowy field
Blue box with two beaded strings
A leather covered shield with a targe
Blue blazer with a gold trim and the top of Kings College Chapel embroidered on the pocket
Piece of glass with a yellow top
Piece of red tartan carpet
Progress Pride flag using items from the collections to make up the colours
Two parrots with black wings and golden chests. They have a very long black upper beak.
Still life painting showing a bottle, vases and apples.
Selection of newspaper cuttings about Dracula and Aberdeenshire
painting of a black and ginger highland cow with sheep in the background
Old black and white photo showing a room packed with tables and benches. It is heavily decorated with drapes hanging from the ceiling and pictures on the wall. The front table has 3 people having tea.
Video showing the new gothic exhibition showing inside display cases.
Bestiary illustration of bees, showing 3 lines of bees flying into 3 skeppas.
Video showing bat objects being installed in a display case with Meatloaf's Bat out of Hell playing
Hand drawn copies of stamps
a taxidermy king penguin
A person looking into a glass case in the zoology musuem
A selection of blue and brown eggs laid out in squares on wool
A person carefully hoovering a taxidermy bat
Poster for Fear and Fascination: A Gothic Exhibition.
A hand annotated map of Trinidad with a hole in it
Two people cleaning a whale jaw
A group of people looking at objects on a table while being given a talk
Cora-Allan looking closely at some barkcloth