HCUK Scottish Chapter Event: Tour of the Scottish Design Galleries

Please join us for a tour of the Scottish Design Galleries at the V&A Museum in Dundee.

Harvard alumna, Dr Martine van Ittersum FRHS, FSAScot, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Dundee, has kindly offered to guide us through the galleries.

The tour will begin at 11:00am and conclude around 12:30pm. We can then go for an optional drink, light lunch, or a walk around Dundee. All Harvard alumni, faculty and families are welcome.

Registration fees:
£5 for Harvard Club UK members
£10 for non-members
Children up to age 18 may join free of charge. (There is a children’s corner at the V&A)

V&A Dundee is a 3-minute walk from the Dundee railway station. The Ember buses from Glasgow and Edinburgh stop right in front of the railway station. The Greenmarket car park is a 10-minute walk from the V&A.

There are lots of things to see and do in Dundee. So, after the tour of the Scottish Design Galleries, people may wish to explore the following:
Visit the Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk exhibit in the V&A (there is a charge for this).

Go on an Antarctic adventure at the Discovery Point and visit the ship of Robert Falcon Scott. The museum and ship are right next to the V&A (there is a charge for this).

Visit the Verdant Works to find out about Dundee’s industrial past (there is a charge for this).

Visit the McManus Gallery (free entry) to find out more about Dundee’s past and admire its municipal art collection, including a superb collection of nineteenth-century Scottish landscape paintings.

Visit St. Andrews, which just a 40-minute drive across the Tay bridge. Bus 99 to St. Andrews runs every 10 minutes and leaves right in front of the railway station (where it will drop you off on the way back as well).