Revealing the Hidden Collections, an initiative by University Museums in Scotland, brings more than 1.8 million objects held by university museums across Scotland into the light of the twenty-first century. The entire collections of the universities of Dundee, St Andrews, Stirling, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Heriot-Watt, Robert Gordon, and the Glasgow School of Art are available, in the form of collections-level descriptions, object records and photographs, through a single search on the UMIS website, with data also available to users of the Collections’ Trust Culture Grid and Europeana, marking a substantial step forward in improving the accessibility of the objects within these institutions.
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