Imagining the Pacific in Scotland in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries: Collectors and Collections, Museums and Universities

在更大的英国背景下，苏格兰通过与苏格兰士兵、传教士、商人、探险家和移民的联系，在收集太平洋物质文化方面有着悠久的历史。这包括詹姆斯·库克船长第三次航行（1776-80）期间从夏威夷群岛收集的一些最早的博物馆藏品，弗雷德里克·比奇船长乘坐HMS Blossom（1825-28）航行时从夏威夷和皮特凯恩群岛收集的早期和稀有物品，以及通过新南威尔士州州长托马斯·布里斯班爵士（1821-5）捐赠的来自南方群岛的重要材料。专注于苏格兰国家博物馆的18世纪末和19世纪初的太平洋收藏品，本博士将研究苏格兰和太平洋之间的知识网络和联系，这些网络和联系导致了这些收藏品的形成，并向各种利益相关者展示它们过去和现在的相关性。在此过程中，它将探讨这些藏品在苏格兰博物馆与原产国博物馆之间不断发展的关系中所扮演的角色。

Scotland, within a wider British context, has a long history of collecting Pacific material culture through links with Scottish soldiers, missionaries, traders, explorers and emigrants. This includes some of the earliest museum collections from the Hawaiian Islands collected during Captain James Cook's third voyage (1776-80), early and rare objects from Hawaii and the Pitcairn Islands compiled by Captain Frederick Beechey's voyage on HMS Blossom (1825-28), and significant material from the Austral Islands donated through Sir Thomas Brisbane, Governor of New South Wales (1821-5).Focusing on National Museums Scotland's late 18th and early 19th century Pacific collections, this PhD will investigate the intellectual networks and connections between Scotland and the Pacific that led to the formation of these collections, and demonstrate their past and current relevance to a variety of stakeholders. In doing so it will explore the roles that these collections play now in the developing relationships between Scottish museums and museums in countries of origin.