Andrews University of UK

The University of St Andrews is located within the village of St Andrews in rural flute, Scotland. The University has teaching facilities, libraries, and student housing and different buildings unfold throughout the city. Generally, university departments and buildings are concentrated on North Street, South Street, The Scores, and the North High. The university has two major sites within the town. The first is the United College, St Andrews (also known as the Quad or St Salvador’s) on North Street, which functions both as a teaching space and venue for student events, incorporating the Departments of Social Anthropology and Modern Languages. The second is St Mary's College, St Andrews, based on South Street, which houses the Schools of Divinity, Psychology and Neuroscience, as well as the King James Library. Several schools are located on The Scores including Classics, English, History, Philosophy, the School of Economics and Finance, and International Relations, as well as the Admissions department, the Museum of the University of St Andrews, and the Principal's residence, University House. North Street is also the site of several departments including, the Principal's Office, The Younger Hall, Department of Film Studies, and the University Library. The North Hugh is principally home to the Natural Sciences such as Chemistry, Physics, Biology, as well as Mathematics, Computer Science, Medicine and the School of Management.

Libraries and museumsSt Andrews University library buildingThe University of St Andrews maintains one of the most extensive university library collections in the United Kingdom, which includes significant holdings of books, manuscripts, monuments and photographs. The library collection contains over a million volumes and over two hundred thousand rare and antique books. The university library was founded by King James VI in 1612, with the donation of 350 works from the royal collection, at the urging of George Gladstone’s, the then chancellor of St Andrews, although the libraries of the colleges of St Leonard's College, St Salvador’s College and St Mary's College had existed prior to this. From 1710 to 1837 the library functioned as a legal deposit library, and as a result has an extensive collection of 18th century literature.

 The library's main building is located on North Street, and houses over 1,000,000 books. The library was designed by the leading firm of architects Faulkner-Brown Hendy Watkinson Stone led by Harry Faulkner-Brown and based in the North East England at Killingworth. Faulkner-Brown specialized in libraries and leisure facilities and also designed the National Library of Canada in Ottawa and the Robinson Library at Newcastle University In 2011 the main library building underwent a £7 million re-development. The historic King James library, built in 1643, houses the university's Divinity and Medieval history collections. In 2012 the University purchased the vacant Martyrs' Church on North Street, with the purpose of providing reading rooms for the Special Collections department and University research students and staff.

University of St Andrews library from above with West Sands in the background

The University maintains several museums and galleries open for free to the public.[90] The Museum of the University of St Andrews (MUSA) opened in 2008 and displays some highlights of the university's extensive collection of over 100,000 artifacts. It displays objects relating both to the history of the university, such as its collection of 15th century maces, and also unrelated objects, such as paintings by John Opie, Alberto Morocco and Charles Sims. 

Several of the university's collections have been recognized as being of 'national significance for Scotland' by Museums Galleries Scotland. The Bell Pettigrew Museum houses the University's natural history collections. Founded in 1912, it is housed in the old Butte Medical School Building in St. Mary's Quad. Among its collections are the remains of several extinct species such as the dodo and Tasmanian tiger as well as fossilized fish from the nearby Dura Den, Fife, which when found in 1859 stimulated the debate on evolution.