Dr Kenneth Baxter’s newest upload on YouTube offers a taste of the Archive’s visual records that show the changes to Dundee over the years. The video shows how Dundee changed as it grew and developed into a 19th Century industrial town. The plans can be seen in the MS 17/P Thornton Collection which contains maps…
The latest virtual walking tour by University museum curator Matthew Jarron focuses on Dundee’s waterfront. While the previous videos were made using Google Streetview, this one mostly takes place off-road and so was filmed in person on a glorious sunny day in September. The tour covers both familiar landmarks and overlooked artworks, starting at Doug…
A big welcome to all our Freshers! Normally during Welcome Week, museum curator Matthew Jarron leads a historical walking tour of the city campus for students, introducing some of the older buildings and exploring some of the University’s history. Covid restrictions have prevented that this year, so instead Matthew has recorded a video version ot…
Join Dr. Kenneth Baxter from the Archives team in another video delving into Dundee’s past. In many of the previous Archives videos, we have explored many old buildings and structures which have now disappeared from Dundee. In this video, we will explore what may be the most iconic and famous lost Dundee building: Dundee Town…
Our Architecture students in partnership with Wuhan University, China, across all year groups, worked with tutors from University of Dundee via Zoom. Together they designed museums, galleries, community centres, city designs and more in a space of 8 weeks during a global pandemic 2020. See the architecture projects from the students at Wuhan University in…
Join Dr. Kenneth Baxter from the University Archives in another video delving into Dundee’s past. This video looks again at the development of Dundee City Centre, but this time with a twist; we explore the development of Dundee as it didn’t happen! Even after the radical architectural changes of the city centre in the 1870s…
Join Dr. Kenneth Baxter in another video exploring our University Archives collections. In this video, Kenneth explores images of one of the University’s most iconic buildings: The Tower Building. If you know the University at all, you will undoubtedly know The Tower Building, as it is probably the building most associated with the University of…
The Digital Exhibition 2020 of the Dundee Museum of Memory showcases student work on the new interdisciplinary Humanities module Making Memory. For their final assignment, students selected a ‘site of memory’ from Dundee and beyond and created a digital exhibit choosing forms such as a photo-essay, video, podcast, piece of creative writing, or comic strip,…
