Hunterian Museum
University museum of fossils, anatomy and art, home to a famously complete prehistoric shark.
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This guide to the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow follows Stan Wood, a former sailor and insurance salesman who hunted fossils in his spare time, and the muddy stream behind his Bearsden housing estate. It takes you back to the early nineteen-eighties, when students, neighbours and schoolchildren spent a summer splitting black shale, and much further back to a brackish lagoon three hundred and thirty million years ago. Best heard standing in the main gallery, in front of the fossil cases.
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