《威廉•亨特与现代博物馆解读》是一本由格拉斯哥大学的亨特博物馆与耶鲁大学英国艺术中心合作举办的一场开创性展览的配套出版物，以庆祝亨特博物馆的创始人威廉•亨特博士（Dr. William Hunter）诞辰三百周年（1718- 1783年）。该出版物是150年来**本评估这位出生于苏格兰的妇产科医生，解剖学家和收藏家亨特对现代博物馆作为公共机构的发展所做的贡献。几篇文章研究了亨特如何收集他的收藏品以用作知识和指导的来源，其中包括杰出的油画和纸上作品，硬币和奖章以及解剖学和动物学标本。亨特还拥有西班牙，中东，中国和南太平洋的人种志手工艺品，并且是中世纪手稿和古版书的狂热收藏者。这些都位于18世纪伦敦最重要的一座“还在运营中的”图书馆内。

William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum accompanies a groundbreaking exhibition organized by the Hunterian at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art, to celebrate the 2018 tercentenary of The Hunterian’s founder, Dr. William Hunter (1718–1783). This publication is the first in 150 years to assess the contribution made by Hunter, the Scottish-born obstetrician, anatomist, and collector, to the development of the modern museum as a public institution.

Essays examine how Hunter gathered his collection to be used as a source of knowledge and instruction, encompassing outstanding paintings and works on paper, coins and medals, and   anatomical and zoological specimens. Hunter also possessed ethnographic artifacts from Spain, the Middle East, China, and the South Pacific, and was an avid collector of medieval manuscripts and incunabula; these were all located within one of the most important “working” libraries of eighteenth-century London.