Breaking the Chains is a map and walking tour exploring Dundee’s links to transatlantic slavery that was co-created by the University of Dundee Museums and Dundee Libraries in 2022 (see Breaking the Chains – University Culture Online ). The response…
This update covers some of the fantastic work done by the Cooper Gallery over the past few months. We start with their ongoing project What I am Reading Now… a monthly digital publication, and critical platform dedicated to celebrating and…
Museum volunteer Delaney Brown (an art history student at the University of St Andrews) tells us about the current exhibition in the Tower Foyer Gallery which she curated in association with the University of Dundee Museums. The female body has…
The Archive’s Alive and if you need any convincing get yourself along to the Entrance Galleries in the Matthew building at DJCAD. The current exhibition of newly created artwork by the incredibly talented students of Level 3 Communication Design studying…
For international women’s day, Kenneth from the Archives takes a look at some of the notable women in the early history of the University, a reminder of how important understanding our past is in shaping who we are today, and…
John Post, a visual artist and doctoral researcher, explains the inspiration behind his latest exhibition as part of LGBT+ History Month in DJCAD. My work explores how photography shapes the identities of gay and bisexual men. For many, photography isn’t…
The University Archive holds the internationally significant Michael Peto photographic collection. From the 1950s until his death in 1970 Michael Peto regularly photographed theatre, television and film productions and as result the Peto Collection contains many images of major stars.…
On the 23 of January, Bloomsbury Academic published a lost piece of Scottish and transatlantic literary history, recovered as part of an ongoing project based at the University of Dundee: The Essential Robert Duncan Milne: Stories by the Lost Pioneer…
In the autumn of 2024 Archives and Museum Services were given the opportunity to host an intern from the Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management certificate course run by Fleming College in Ontario, Canada. We were delighted to welcome Lindsey Mace…
A quarter of a century after the world held its breath and waited to see if the new millennium would bring computer chaos, Archive Services looks at how the University prepared for and responded to the event. In 1999 as…