The Kelvin Hall building is being transformed into one of the biggest museum and academic research centres in the UK.
Other features include a public sporting and museums facility, access to the National Library of Scotland's Moving Image Archive/digital collections, modern research/study areas and the opportunity to work more closely with the university's collections, including the Hunterian.
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Professor David Gaimster, Director of the Hunterian, said: "The Kelvin Hall Phase 1 project is going to enable us to bring together all of our collections, 1.5 million objects and specimens, that are now in nine different storage facilities which are very inaccessible, and bring this incredible asset dating back to The Enlightenment, and not only create new access for educational audiences including the University of Glasgow but also connect collections which have been entirely fragmented for more than 200 years.
"For The Hunterian, Phase 1 of the development is the foothold and should give us the business case to eventually create a new Hunterian in the next few years as part of Phase 2. In the meantime, The Hunterian public galleries will remain where they currently are."
The first phase of the redevelopment project is due to completed by the summer, with an official opening date scheduled in the Autumn.
(LM/JP)
