A beautiful collaboration of the University of Dundee User Centre’s Tap & Talk, a support group for adults with the language impairment aphasia, with musicians of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra was premiered last week via Zoom. This collaborative musical…
Students from DJCAD will reinterpret the work of Joan Eardely, an artist famous for her representations of everyday Scotland in the 20th Century, to celebrate the centenary of her birth. The free, online symposium will also include contributions from DJCAD…
The recording of UoD Museum’s Tayside’s Treasures event hosted by Matthew Jarron is now available on YouTube. This event took place on the 12th of May 2021 and it featured a series of short presentations from curators and collections staff…
Save the date alert! Hundreds of Art, Design and Architecture students will showcase their creativity in this year’s Graduate Showcase which will take place between the 11th and 21st of June. The online live launch will be held in the…
Last weekend OpSoc performed their charity concert in support of Feeling Strong Dundee. Feeling Strong is a local charity with a mission to inspire and empower young people in Dundee living with mental health or wellbeing challenges to reach to…
For the third in our series looking at how the City has changed the University Archives focuses on the site of the V&A, an area which has been transformed over the last 250 years. Crawford’s 1776 plan of Dundee shows…
Wed 26 May 6pm – 7.15pm Like many natural history museums, D’Arcy Thompson’s zoology collection was largely acquired during the colonial era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of the museum’s specimens come from colonies and dominions…
Explore the new exciting trail at the Dundee Botanic Gardens to discover the wonderful world of plants and those who uncover their secrets to help protect people and the planet. This event just started on the 15th of May and…
A set of scrubs sewn by a University of Dundee volunteer responding to the urgent need for medical clothing in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic have been donated to The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum. The scrubs…
Student Lucy Southwell was part of the MSc Medical Art class that was led this semester by Museum Curator Matthew Jarron and Senior Archivist Jan Merchant. Having worked on promotional material for museums in London and a zine based on her…