Today’s music contribution is from the Discovery Bach Cantata Project, a small choral group made up of students, staff and alumni of University of Dundee. ‘So… we’re still missing singing and breathing together, and performing for a living breathing audience,…
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 this video to hear about the charitable efforts of students at University College, Dundee (now University of Dundee) which included the publication of the Glad Mag. The amazing artwork includes…
Join botanical horticulturalist Clare Reaney as she walks us through the New Zealand section of the Botanic Gardens at the University and shows us the weird and wonderful plants there.
As part of Dundee Month of Design 2020, museum curator Matthew Jarron had planned to lead a series of guided walks of public art and design in different parts of the city. Because of the current lockdown these have not…
This year’s Honorary Graduates’ Award for Inclusive Practice has been awarded to Lauren Christie, a tutor in both the School of Humanities and the Academic Skills Centre, and the CreateSpace Staff and Student Team from the Library and Learning Centre…
The University of Dundee Book Club Podcast has just posted its third episode! In this podcast you will have the opportunity to learn out about the books and ideas that have inspired and influenced the many different and wonderful people…
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…
Today on the #DundeeUniCulture blog we are sharing this fantastic review of a recent film adaptation of H.G. Wells’s classic novel The Invisible Man, written by University of Dundee’s very own Dr Keith Williams. Keith teaches Wells at Level 4…
Members of our Christian Union have taken part in an international choir. Watch out for them on the Scotland screen in this performance of “When I Survey the Wonderous Cross”!
Peto’s passion for photographing the ordinary often led him to capturing the more eccentric aspects of British life – and this capture of a group nuns sleeping in deckchairs from the ’60s is a quintessential example. Photo-journalist Michael Peto worked…
As part of Dundee Month of Design 2020, museum curator Matthew Jarron had planned to lead a series of guided walks of public art and design in different parts of the city. Because of the current lockdown these have not…
George Howard Bell was Symers Professor of Physiology in the University of Dundee, 1947-1975. He was a keen photographer and took photographs of the University, Dundee and its surrounding area. We are lucky enough to hold his collection in the…
The team at the Botanic Gardens will be holding a Gardeners Question and Answer Forum on Wednesday 10th June at 2pm. If you have any gardening questions you would like answered by our experts here at the Botanics, then please…
Today’s socially (and time) distanced duet features Emma Ritchie on cello and UoD Music Director Graeme Stevenson on piano. Emma is a medical student at University of Dundee and plays in the Dundee University Orchestra 2019-2020 and with the Discovery Bach Cantata…
Ranked alongside Owen, Brooke and Sassoon, Joseph Lee was in his day regarded as one of Scotland’s finest First World War poets. Although his reputation has since been unfairly eclipsed, his poetry and war memoirs remain powerfully evocative. What makes…
School of Education & Social Work Lecturer Jonathan Brown has started a fantastic University of Dundee Book Club podcast during lockdown for your listening pleasure! The podcast aims to interview staff across the campus about the books that have impacted…
The Art, Design and Architecture Graduate Showcase 2020 celebrates the achievements of our graduating students from University of Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design and the department of Architecture within the School of Social Sciences. In the…
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…
As part of Dundee Month of Design 2020, museum curator Matthew Jarron had planned to lead a series of guided walks of public art and design in different parts of the city. Because of the current lockdown these have not…
Today’s song is the beautiful An die Musik performed by Morag Hannah. Morag is member of staff at University of Dundee and co-director of the Quire with a Q.
George Howard Bell was Symers Professor of Physiology in the University of Dundee, 1947-1975. He was a keen photographer and took photographs of the University, Dundee and its surrounding area. We are lucky enough to hold his collection in the…
Take a virtual tour around the glasshouse in the Botanic Gardens at the University of Dundee with botanical horticulturalist Clare Reaney as she shows us the wonderful variety of plants on offer.
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…
The Cooper Gallery has still got a few spaces open for this Thursday’s upcoming writing workshop led by Poet and Writer Jane Goldman. Please see below for information on how to sign up for this experimental poetry workshop, being held…
“I created this comic in collaboration with undergraduate students, master’s students and artists in order to promote the comics collection in the University of Dundee’s Archives as well as the Museum Services. It is a public information comic that tells…
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…
Today’s music contribution is from the Discovery Bach Cantata Project, a small choral group made up of students, staff and alumni of University of Dundee. A short motet, Cantate Domino, by the German composer Hans Leo Hassler.
Peto regularly visited Dundee, photographing the city’s streets and people. ‘Foggy Day’ was taken at Whorterbank, Lochee, features one of the women wearing the famous jute ‘baffies’ and won a European award in 1960. Photo-journalist Michael Peto worked with The…
Rhythmic Marks and Misprints are two interconnected art science projects that took place during 2018-19. The project involved artist/researcher Daksha Patel creating artwork in response to current research into Parkinson’s disease led by Professor Miratul Muqit and his team based…
For the finale of #WellTogether week, we would like to share with you this incredibly moving rendition of ‘You Will Be Found’ from the musical ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ which was created by OpSoc for #WellTogether Week on the #DundeeUniCulture blog.…
For her third and final film for #WellTogether Week, University Archivist Caroline Brown shows us another project of the University Archives which relates to the NHS Tayside collection – in particular the Strathmartine Hospital. The project was funded by Heritage…
As part of Dundee Month of Design 2020, museum curator Matthew Jarron had planned to lead a series of guided walks of public art and design in different parts of the city. Because of the current lockdown these have not…
Gardening can be a great way to look after both our physical and mental wellbeing, but not everyone is lucky enough to have their own garden during this period of lockdown. That’s why we love this tutorial from Clare Reaney…
The Art at the Start project is a collaboration between art psychotherapist Vicky Armstrong and experimental psychologist Dr Josephine Ross. We are interested in the impact participation in art can have upon the social well-being of young children and how…
The Cooper Gallery has just released details of an incredibly high-profile screening and in-conversation event with acclaimed filmmakers Laura Mulvey and Margaret Salmon. It takes place next Thursday, 21st May and you can read all of the details about the…
Members of the Dundee University Orchestra 2019-2020 have managed to put a long distance string ensemble performance of the first movement of Vivaldi’s String Concerto in C RV 110, Thanks to Erin, Emily (x2), Jay, MoragAnne, Emma, Rebecca and Judith. And…
Andrew Robert’s sound installation for the River Deep Mountain High exhibition responds to a sound scan of the bed of the Tay below the Tay Road Bridge taken by University of Dundee staff in 1999. Andrew was fascinated by the…
As part of Dundee Month of Design 2020, museum curator Matthew Jarron had planned to lead a series of guided walks of public art and design in different parts of the city. Because of the current lockdown these have not…
For #WellTogether Week, University Archivist Caroline Brown has created some short talks which explore how archives relate to mental well-being. Today we share the second of her short talks, in which we she discusses how mental health records in the…
In this following video for #WellTogether week, University Archivist Jan Merchant talks us through the Big Back Garden Project. The Big Back Garden Project is a project run by the Archive Services at the University of Dundee with Morgan Academy…
Since 2016 the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies has produced a number of public information comics, many of them dealing with healthcare issues and science communication. When the Coronavirus pandemic took hold in early 2020, sending the world into lockdown,…
As part of Dundee Month of Design 2020, museum curator Matthew Jarron had planned to lead a series of guided walks of public art and design in different parts of the city. Because of the current lockdown these have not…
As part of #WellTogether Week, we wanted to share with you ‘Dundee Isolation Film Festival’, a night for collectively enjoying the best of Dundee’s own moving image work, even while stuck in quarantine! University of Dundee PhD Researcher and Filmmaker…
Next up for #WellTogether week, we are sharing the amazing online art project created and shared online by CollaborACES, which has provided our community with weekly projects to inspire us to get crafty and creative during this difficult time! CollaborACES…
For #WellTogether Week, University Archivist Caroline Brown has created some short talks which explore how archives relate to mental well-being. Today we share the first of her short talks, in which she discusses collections that relate to mental health in…
As part of Dundee Month of Design 2020, museum curator Matthew Jarron had planned to lead a series of guided walks of public art and design in different parts of the city. Because of the current lockdown these have not…
Getting out in nature can be a great way to relax and practice mindfulness. We know that it’s not possible for everyone to get out as much as we would normally like, so the Botanic Gardens here at University of…
We can all often feel overwhelmed by one thing or another. Whether it’s coursework, problems in our personal life or we’re just having a bad day, sometimes we need to escape from the outside world for a while. One of…
Our very own Colin from IT has written a song and directed a video during the lockdown, and we’re sure this will ring true for all those working from home in this difficult period. We know working from home brings…
This week the #DundeeUniCulture blog is holding a ‘Well Together’ week-long event starting from today. Throughout the week, all blog posts will focus on mindfulness and well-being activities that our staff and students have been doing in order to look…
“This was created for my PhD chapter on noir comics and has been adopted onto the film noir course. It is a silly anthropomorphic romp in a sci-fi/ noir world. It has suggestions for films to watch in order to…
‘These Windows’ is a collaborative publishing project between the University of Dundee and the V&A Dundee. The online gallery, gathered on DURA, pairs with a forthcoming printed publication to showcase the creative dexterity of DJCAD Illustration BDes students and School of Humanities Creative Writing…
Festival of the Future is the University of Dundee’s annual event which celebrates science, arts and culture. In 2019 we had 60 events across 5 days in Bonar Hall and other venues around the city. We collaborated with a range…
Chantal Leimbach used The Grampian Club photos and images she shot herself in Austria to inspire her contribution to the River Deep Mountain High exhibition. Chantal looked for textural similarities & differences in the images and explored this in her…
HerStory of Science exhibition opened at the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee on Friday, 3rd March 2017 with some of the descendants of those featured in attendance. A series of outdoor posters consider the early history…
This vibrant picture, taken in June 1959, was one of a series Peto photographed for the ‘Observer’ which did a feature of Spanish life under Franco’s regime. In the 1950s Franco implemented some reforms of Spain’s isolationist self-sufficiency policies which…
Kevin McMahon AKA Kevin Quantum, magician scientist hybrid and University of Dundee alumnus appears on Britain’s Got Talent! Check out his jaw-dropping act in the video below:
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…
Delighted to have one of our students and member of the orchestra play for us today. Nicky is completing her 2nd year studying Neuroscience at University of Dundee. She’s playing Chopin Nocturne in c#. You can find plenty more Dundee…
The Botanic nursery is still on lockdown but the team at the Botanic Gardens are all looking forward to making further improvements to the garden and are giving us a preview of some of their new plants. Click on the…
The oldest thing in the University Archives is this fragment of papyrus given to University College Dundee in acknowledgement of their support of the Egypt Exploration Fund (MS 142). It probably records the sale of a female slave (likely 8…
This short MP4 was created in collaboration with the PGDE 18-19 (Postgraduate Diploma in Education) students from the school of Education and Social Work at University of Dundee. It comprises materials and images from their art and design workshops as…
Lucy Golden’s ,’Stretch of Water’ for the River Deep Mountain High exhibition was inspired by data & models produced by the Dept of Geology & R.W. Austin’s ocean colour scale held by the University Museums. Lucy developed a series of…
Cooper Gallery’s detour in the space in-between where we find ourselves, somewhere between life as it was and the world to come, begins by sharing reading, listening and screening material related to and featured in our currently postponed exhibition A is…
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…
Following the cancellation of their annual charity concert, this year the University of Dundee OpSoc thought it would be fun to do a week-long online charity concert via their Facebook page. In these uncertain times OpSoc think it is important…
In the following short video, botanical horticulturalist Clare Reaney walks us through the Botanic Gardens at the University of Dundee over the Easter Weekend, showing us the spectacular Rhododenrons in the Gardens.
Poetry, digital printing, waterless lithography & a caramel wafer! Connecting well being & nature, these wonderful contributions are from Christine Kingsley and Susan P Mains for the River Deep Mountain High exhibition. Inspired by flora, fauna, nature notes & the…
As we all get used to the new way of life during the Coronavirus Crisis, Graeme Stevenson, University of Dundee’s Director of Music, has been playing the 48 preludes and fugue by Bach as a lovely tribute to his grandfather:…
Peto captured the Beatles filming and recording their second feature HELP in 1965! One of the film’s most iconic scenes is the Beatles playing on Salisbury Plain, protected by the Army from the cult who want to sacrifice Ringo. Photo-journalist…
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…
Here is some wonderful traditional music from the TradSoc’s weekly session in Speedwells pub to bring you some joy, and to serve as a reminder of normality & pubs! TradSoc is a music group that play Scottish and Irish…
Rebecca Baird‘s poetic contribution for the River Deep Mountain High exhibition is displayed in the case containing the feather star specimen which inspired her musings. We can’t physically enjoy the exhibition at the moment but we can do so virtually.…
Peto excelled at capturing the world of ballet, particularly the relationship between Nureyev and Fonteyn the two most iconic dancers of the period as this image from 1963 shows. He not only photographed productions, but also rehearsals like this one…
Whilst we are all in lockdown, Spring is still bringing the Botanic Gardens alive at the University of Dundee! For a virtual walk through nature, take a trip around the Botanic Gardens in the following video with Curator Kevin Frediani.
This aerial view was taken in the early 1960s and shows the area around campus of Queen’s College, Dundee, which became the University of Dundee in 1967. The campus was rapidly expanding at this point. The recently built Tower Building…
Due to the current Coronavirus emergency, our museums and galleries are currently closed, but we’re still keen to share our collections and activities in other ways. The Museum Services have curated a selection of various DJCAD animation films, all free…
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 second in a series of films in which museum curator Matthew Jarron tells the stories behind…
Hannah Fleming’s beautiful oars took inspiration from a 1902 SS Active logbook held by the University Archives. The whaling logbooks given an insight into this industry and tell of successes and challenges. Sadly, the SS Active was to sink near…
Jazz trumpeteer ‘Satchmo’ was just one musician Peto photographed during his career, often capturing them before or just after a performance, as with this one taken in 1956 at the Empress Ballroom, London. Photo-journalist Michael Peto worked with The Observer during…
In the following short video, botanical horticulturalist Clare Reaney talks through how the living collections in the Botanic Gardens at the University of Dundee are labelled, and what the labels mean. Labelling is an extremely important part of the conservation…
Flow by Rosemary Taylor Installation “Flow is a site-specific installation that threads and winds around the exhibition space of the Lamb Gallery before exiting into the Tower Foyer. The fine threads along the walls replicate the tributaries entering a body…
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 first in a series of films in which museum curator Matthew Jarron tells the stories behind…
Annie Wynne’s installation for the River Deep Mountain High exhibition found inspiration in the McClean Hydrometric Data collection held by the University Archives. I Follow Rivers by Annie Wynne Installation “Water has been measured extensively. The thickness in feet…
Murdoch was one of many figures of literature photographed by Peto. Murdoch was a Fellow of Philosophy at Oxford University when this portrait was taken in 1962 for a profile in the The Observer Weekend Review. Photo-journalist Michael Peto worked…
Dundee University Operatic Society (usually known as OpSoc) Programme for production of the Grand Duchess performed at Dundee’s Whitehall theatre in 1980. OpSoc has been in existence for nearly 60 years and is the University’s longest standing musical theatre society…
From the University Museum collections, one of over 70 broadsheets from the 1960s and ’70s made by Graphic Design and Illustration & Printmaking students at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. If you know who created this one get in…
A popular feature of our Zoology Museum at UoD are our colouring sheets created by DJCAD alumnus Gavin Rutherford. For those of you looking for something to keep the kids occupied, here’s one you can print out and complete at…
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 one of a series of films in which museum curator Matthew Jarron tells the stories behind some…