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

在更广泛的英国背景下，苏格兰通过与苏格兰士兵、传教士、商人、探险家和移民建立联系，收集太平洋物质文化的历史悠久。其中包括詹姆斯·库克船长第三次航行期间(1776-1880年)收藏的一些夏威夷群岛最早的博物馆藏品，弗雷德里克·比奇船长在HMS Blossom号上的航行(1825-1828年)汇编的夏威夷和皮特凯恩群岛的早期和稀有物品，以及新南威尔士州州长托马斯·布里斯班爵士(1821-185年)捐赠的来自南方群岛的重要材料。这一博士学位侧重于苏格兰国家博物馆18世纪末和19世纪初的太平洋收藏品，将调查导致这些收藏品形成的苏格兰和太平洋之间的智力网络和联系，并展示它们过去和现在与各种利益相关者的相关性。在这样做的过程中，它将探索这些收藏品目前在苏格兰博物馆和原产国博物馆之间发展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.