{"id":1153,"date":"2020-07-21T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:18","slug":"the-art-collection-of-dr-james-nicoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/the-art-collection-of-dr-james-nicoll\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art Collection of Dr James Nicoll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the University&#8217;s museums and galleries are temporarily closed due to the coronavirus emergency, we&#8217;re sharing more of our collections online. This is the latest in a series of films in which museum curator Matthew Jarron tells the stories behind some of our most interesting objects and artworks. In this video we look at Dr James Nicoll&#8217;s bequest of artwork to University College Dundee in 1951 . The film features images from the University of Dundee Museum Collections, the University Archives, the Wellcome Collection (under a Creative Commons licence) and private collections. You can find out more about our collections at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dundee.ac.uk\/museum\">www.dundee.ac.uk\/museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Art Collection of Dr James Nicoll\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HKzEquQ69CI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the University&#8217;s museums and galleries are temporarily closed due to the coronavirus emergency, we&#8217;re sharing more of our collections online. This is the latest in a series of films in which museum curator Matthew Jarron tells the stories behind some of our most interesting objects and artworks. In this video we look at Dr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":1154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-museums","tag-museums-curator-chat"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6477,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/6477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}