Earlier this year, the Bits & Bones exhibition was a student organised event to showcase their range of artwork and talents, and provide the public with an introduction to the fields of Medical and Forensic Art. The exhibit presented depictions…
This week’s Flashback Friday Film Festival offering from the University Archives takes us back to 1976. The occasion is a visit by schoolchildren to the campus and Ninewells and as the camera follows them around we see some familiar and…
Join botanical horticulturalist Clare Reaney in this video where you can explore the Australasian section of the Botanic Gardens. This section of the garden is one of the newest parts of the garden to be landscaped and has lots of…
Join University Archivist Caroline Brown in this video delving into the past, looking at women in the University Archives. In this film Caroline discusses the lives of four women that are recorded in the University Archives; Margaret Fairlie, Ruth Young,…
‘When I am laid to earth – Henry Purcell’ The famous lament from Purcell’s opera “Dido and Aeneas” is sung by Helen, a member of the DUMS Chamber Choir, alongside Music Director Graeme on the piano. Helen is a PhD…
While the University’s museums and galleries are temporarily closed due to the coronavirus emergency, we’re sharing more of our collections online. This is the latest in a series of films in which museum curator Matthew Jarron tells the stories behind…
Join Dr. Kenneth Baxter from the University Archives team in another video delving into the past! In this video, Kenneth uses the Archives Collections to take a step back in time and look at Dundee’s High Street in the 19th…
The Cooper Gallery, within Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, has launched its latest project. Hear, Here runs from 26 June – 28 August. The project includes a series of sound art commissions by artists who work with images,…
In this post originally written for The Centre for Scottish Culture, Murdo Macdonald, Professor Emeritus of the History of Scottish Art at the University of Dundee, tells us about his new book, Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual Origins (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).…
This Flashback Friday film from the University Archives takes us back to 1971 and a student demonstration in the City centre. The march was in response to proposals by Margaret Thatcher, the then Education Minister, to restrict the financing and…