Alex Heywood studied Animation at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, graduating in 2017. He has since attracted international attention for his unique digital artworks, featuring an extraordinary menagerie of curious yet familiar animals. Each of his illustrations…
Amy Crawford, MGS Funded Museum Engagement Officer Looking for some creepy crawlies to get you in the Halloween spirit? You’ve come to the right place. Our D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum has no shortage of strange, creepy and haunting preserved creatures.…
Amy Crawford, MGS Funded Museum Engagement Officer Imagine a museum. Did you think of dusty books, animal skeletons and gothic architecture? If so, then perhaps Dark Academia is up your street. Dark Academia is an emerging aesthetic sub-culture. As opposed…
Amy Crawford, MGS Funded Museum Engagement Officer The herbarium is an often-overlooked part of our museum collections. Housing over 13,000 specimens from Angus to Darjeeling, the room is rather magical. Behind every small door is a collated stack of…
“Calm down, they’re just having lunch” University of Dundee Museums partnered with Breast Buddies Dundee for World Breastfeeding Week 2021. The Museum Engagement team edited images from their Fine Art collections in an effort to catch your eye and share…
A new online exhibition curated by Museum Services is now available to view here. Dundee ‘Picturing the City’ explores how artists have depicted the city’s natural and built environment throughout the years. From gloriously gloomy oil paintings of the Seagate…
If you missed the Decolonising the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum event, the recording is now available on YouTube: Like many natural history museums, D’Arcy Thompson’s zoology collection was largely acquired during the colonial era of the late 19th and early…
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…
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…