Every March, Dundee Women’s Festival takes place with events occurring across the city. This year’s theme “Today’s Women Shape Tomorrow’s World” has sparked enthusiasm with University staff and students who have organised a myriad of events. You can pick to: learn about the new creative corner of campus participate in a panel discussion on a…Continue Reading Dundee Women’s Festival Events
The Cooper Gallery’s What I am Reading Now … is an ongoing online publication. In 2022 Black practitioners and practitioners of colour are invited to share, with a preface, a selection of five readings that are shaping their current thinking, research and practice. The February issue features a contribution by Ashanti Harris, who is a multi-disciplinary artist…Continue Reading What I am reading now – Ashanti Harris
Co-written by Léa Joshi (Museum & Gallery Studies, University of St Andrews) and Amy Crawford (MGS funded Museum Engagement Officer) The new exhibition of the University of Dundee Museums highlights the works of former students of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in 1968-72. The exhibition looks at both previous and current work of the…Continue Reading Exhibition: Let’s Go Round Again
The Society’s project archivist, Alasdair Bachell, tells us more about this pioneering campaigner. It is only right that my second blog for the Brittle Bone Society project I talk about the founder of the Brittle Bone Society: Dr Margaret Grant MBE. Margaret passed away in December 2020, after a life dedicated to advocating for people…Continue Reading Margaret Grant MBE – founder of the Brittle Bone Society
Our newest exhibition in the Tower Foyer gallery spotlights some of the most recent additions to the University of Dundee Museum Collections. Focusing on art and design, it also features objects relating to science, medicine and natural history. Among the highlights are: • Artworks acquired for the collection of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art…Continue Reading Exhibition: Recent Acquisitions
Discover the history of Dundee’s Caird Hall in this post from Archive Services. In April 1914, Sir James Caird, one of Dundee’s wealthiest jute barons and a noted philanthropist, announced he was prepared to fund a new building to act as a city hall and council chambers at a cost of £100,000. However, this was…Continue Reading Then and now – changing Dundee: the Caird Hall
PhD student, Sylvia Valentine, shares some of her research on an outbreak of smallpox in Dundee in the early 20th century. The University of Dundee archives hold a collection of records for the Dundee Kings Cross Smallpox Hospital.[i] Amongst the individual patient records are seven relating to British seamen who had been crewing the steam…Continue Reading The Dundee Smallpox Scare 1906
We delighted to share another in our regular series from the Archives, this time looking at Ninewells Hospital. In the first half of the twentieth century Dundee had become firmly established as centre of medical education and, in Dundee Royal Infirmary, had a major hospital supported by others such as the old poor house facilities…Continue Reading Then and now – changing Dundee: Ninewells
Amy Crawford – MGS funded Museum Engagement Officer Art and science often go hand in hand. The ability to visualise scientific data is an artform, likewise art is often inspired by nature and the scientific world. Some of the most unique art and science objects in our collections are glass sculptures. These glass sculptures below…Continue Reading Where Art meets Science – Glass Sculptures