Project partners

The project brings together the Grant Museum of Zoology, University College London; The Hunterian in Glasgow; the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby; the Horniman Museum and Gardens in south-east London; and Royal Museums Greenwich.

Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby

The Museum is located in the 17th-century house belonging to Cook’s master, the Quaker shipowner Captain John Walker. It was here that Cook lodged as apprentice and learnt the marine skills which served him so well on his great voyages. Across the harbour, Endeavour was built, a sturdy collier-bark capacious enough to carry the crew around the world. The Museum has an important collection of paintings, prints and drawings relating to the voyages.
http://www.cookmuseumwhitby.co.uk/

Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL

The Grant Museum of Zoology at University College London (UCL) is one of the oldest natural history collections in the country. It was put together to teach England’s first university courses in zoology by pioneering evolutionist Robert Edmond Grant. It covers the whole of the animal kingdom and includes some of the rarest specimens on the planet. Because of its significance as Europe’s first vision of an Australian mammal, when Stubbs’s kangaroo painting comes to the Grant we plan to explore animal representations in art, science and history, creating opportunities for UCL’s leading academics and our visitors to engage with the topics together.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/zoology/

The Horniman Museum and Gardens

The Horniman Museum and Gardens opened in 1901 as a gift to the people, in perpetuity, from tea trader and philanthropist Frederick John Horniman, to ‘bring the world to Forest Hill’. Today the Horniman has a collection of 350,000 objects, specimens and artefacts from around the world. Its galleries include natural history, anthropology, music and an acclaimed aquarium. Indoor exhibits link to the award-winning display gardens – from food and dye gardens to an interactive sound garden – set among 16 acres of beautiful, green space offering spectacular views across London.
http://www.horniman.ac.uk/

Hunterian Museum, Glasgow

The Hunterian is one of the world’s leading museums. Built on William Hunter’s founding bequest, its collections include scientific instruments used by Watt, Lister and Kelvin; outstanding Roman artefacts from the Antonine Wall; one of the world’s greatest numismatic collections; impressive ethnographic objects from Captain Cook’s Pacific voyages and one of the most distinguished public art collections in Scotland, including works by Rembrandt, Stubbs, Chardin, the Scottish Colourists, Whistler and Mackintosh.
http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/

Royal Museums Greenwich, London

Royal Museums Greenwich comprises four sites: the National Maritime Museum, the Royal Observatory, the Queen’s House and Cutty Sark. Together these constitute one museum working to illustrate for everyone the importance of the sea, ships, time and the stars and their relationship with people.
http://www.rmg.co.uk/