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The Dundee branch of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, with a focus on design in Scotland. Its waterfront building is a striking modern design with an interior of ship's planking, as if Discovery next door had arrived as an Ikea flat-pack.
V&A Dundee is a design museum in Dundee, Scotland, which opened on 15 September 2018. The V&A Dundee is the first design museum in Scotland and the first Victoria and Albert museum outside London. The V&A Dundee is also the first building in the United Kingdom designed by Kengo Kuma, whose vision was for a 'living room for the city'.
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Discovery, launched in 1901, is an Royal Research Ship (RRS) specifically built for Antarctic exploration. She's a 3-masted wooden sailing ship with only auxiliary steam power, built in Dundee because its shipwrights still had expertise in polar sail-powered vessels that was being lost elsewhere. Discovery was commanded by Robert Falcon Scott, and also aboard was Ernest Shackleton. They reached Antarctica in early 1902 (austral summer), intending to spend one winter, but the ship became icebound for the next two years. They were just about to abandon ship in Feb 1904 when the ice broke and they escaped homeward to public acclaim. Both men were to return: Shackleton in 1907-09 didn't quite reach the South Pole, but survived. Scott in 1910-12 did reach it, but behind Amundsen, and all his party perished on the trek back to the coast. The museum has an extensive display of the 1902-04 expedition, then you go aboard the dry-docked ship, which had a later career as a polar merchant vessel.
Often hosts concerts, bands and so on: the auditorium has a capacity of 2300. It's home to a grand 1923 Organ.
Anglican cathedral in Decorated Gothic style by George Gilbert Scott, completed in 1855.
RC cathedral with a Victorian Gothic facade opened in 1836.
This cemetery was part of Greyfriars Monastery until Mary Queen of Scots gave it to the city in 1564. The well-preserved gravestones are mostly 19th-century, including that of James Chalmers (d 1853), inventor of the adhesive postage stamp. The last burial here in 1878 was of George Duncan, businessman and MP. Today the Howff is a secluded, peaceful place.
Staging theatre, dance and music.