Glad to share that we have been awarded a grant by Being Human Festival! Very excited to be working with local practitioners and school groups to coordinate a creative response to the Alien Worlds exhibition. Stay tuned for more information... 🪐☀️

Our Iran: Wonders of Nature exhibition is a finalist in the Scottish Design Awards Experiential Design category! Well done to our designers LATERAL NORTH and fabricators Podbox for the huge achievement - and best of luck to all nominees tonight. Scottish Design Awards

Matt and Eilidh are ready to go at the Scottish Design Awards! Good luck to all the nominees #ScotDesign LATERAL NORTH

Congratulations Studioarc for winning the Experiential Design Gold Award yesterday! We hope you had a great time celebrating - very happy to see lots of museums and heritage institutions at this year's awards!

Exciting news! This is a great Open Access publication. I have a chapter on the processes, challenges and benefits of using physical materials from the University Library Museums of the University of St Andrews to teach 18th c art and its engagement with archaeology and classical culture.

Our Escape Room Experience at the Bell Pettigrew Museum is almost ready to blast off for summer. Will you and your crew solve the clues and escape in time? Find out more here: ow.ly/yQVi50SsC2r

Sunday 28th July, we return to 'Music at the Museum' in St Andrews. LMNS folksinger Iona Fyfe is performing as part of the Alien Worlds #exhibition programme at the Wardlaw Museum. #Concert is in partnership with Museums of the University of St Andrews and is free to attend. st-andrews.ac.uk/museums/

Who recognises these volumes? And can you spot the handwritten notes? Let us know below if you have copies in your own collection - and what their quirks are! Check out 'la Difesa' in our collections catalogue: collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/album-book-por…

How do we spot an exoplanet? Our academics recommended Astronify as a tool to understand how exoplanets are found. Have you tried it? And can you recommend anything else? ow.ly/wfao50Sume7

Interesting find Museums of the University of St Andrews Wardlaw Museum... maybe we could pair up and borrow their interactive polarising exhibit! Great to see such a similar display to the one Egilsay Class helped curate Stromness Museum

I’m running storytelling workshops for kids at the Wardlaw Museum in St Andrews on Saturday as part of their brilliant Alien Antics community day. Completely free event, from 12-4pm. Come along and make up some sensational sci-fi stories with me! events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/family-….

Starting soon: Alien Antics family day at Wardlaw Museum! The wonderful staff here have an amazing day planned, with loads of out of this world activities for kids and families to enjoy. Oh, and I’m upstairs in the Learning Loft, too!! Come along and join us 👽

There’s still time for you to zoom down for our Alien Antics Family Activity day here at the Wardlaw Museum. Struan is on hand to help with your Hidden Planets 🪐🪐🪐

We are really happy to see the impressive Franki Raffles exhibition at the Baltic has been doing well! Have a read at our newest Blog with our Assistant Curator's perspective on installing the exhibition: museumblog.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/07/15/fra…

More amazing things to see if you are coming to the World Con! Wardlaw Museum! Explore alien worlds, create your own exo plant, and talk to alien civilizations! Museums of the University of St Andrews

Alien Worlds at the Wardlaw Museum. Covers a wide range of topics, including astrobiology and sci fi stories! A well worth place to visit. Very combinable with Space Metal. Arjen Lucassen Museums of the University of St Andrews Lydia Heeley Eilidh Lawrence Laura Brown Struan Michael Watson youtu.be/-QCK0H2adrc?si…

New podcast alert! 📣🎧 Humankind has been looking up to the skies for centuries. But what does our own planet have to offer? Join Dr Claire Cousins and many exciting guests for 'Futurescaping Space', out on your favourite podcast platforms every Monday in September.

Linking St Andrews to Norway for her Laidlaw Research Scholarship, Stella researched the amateur art of past Rector, Fridtjof Nansen. Read about her research in her two brand new blogs. Nansen in St Andrews: ow.ly/bZXr50T6gPR Nansen in Norway: ow.ly/ZPU950T6gPS

When did humankind first start looking up at the sky? In the first episode of their brand new podcast, Dr Claire Cousins and her guests go back to when humankind first started looking up to the skies and what has happened since. Earth & Environmental Science, St Andrews Listen here: ow.ly/6Mjy50SRSTr