MacRobert Building

The MacRobert Building houses the School of Education, which incluides University Music and the Elphinstone Institute. It is also home to dot.rural, the RCUK Digital Economy Hub. Opened in 1967 as the Agriculture Building, it was subsequently renamed the MacRobert Building to honour the MacRobert Trust.

It also houses changing exhibitions in the ground floor café and foyer.

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The exhibition in the MacRobert Building depicts traditional life of indigenous peoples across the Russian Arctic. The photographs provide glimpses into Northern Siberian cultures like the Chukchi, Dolgan, Even, Khanty, Komi, Nenets, Nganasan, and Yakut.

41 years ago, Bryan Alexander used a Royal Society of Arts travel bursary to visit North West Greenland where he lived in an Inuit community for four months. This was the beginning of a lifetime documenting the Arctic and its people. Bryan has spent a total of ten of the past 40 years living in isolated native camps and villages around the Arctic.

Over the years Bryan and his wife Cherry have carried out assignments for many of the World's leading magazines including, Time, GEO, Le Figaro, Smithsonian, Vogue, People, International Wildlife, and the Sunday Times. Today, they run Arcticphoto, a specialist photo archive on Polar regions. Their work is an expanding record of these vast areas and the changes that have happened over more than four decades.