The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, known as The Earl and Countess of Strathearn in Scotland, opened our museum this afternoon. What an amazing day!
#RoyalVisitDundee
🎶I would walk 500 miles…🎶
To celebrate
#StAndrewsDay
, Stuart McMillan MSP – official piper to the Scottish Parliament – joined us for a tune on our roof!
@ScotParl
@StuMcMillanSNP
We’re thrilled to announce our new Director 🎉
One of Scotland’s most experienced cultural leaders,
@Leonie_S_Bell
has worked in a range of roles, advocating for the transformative potential of culture and creativity across society ✨
Find out more:
Good morning, Dundee. Madainn mhath Alba. Hello, World.
Great to see people wandering around outside the museum already 🤗
We open at 10.00; everyone's welcome.
Let's do this.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will officially open V&A Dundee tomorrow.
They are expected to greet members of the public outside the museum on their departure.
For your chance to see them, please come down to the museum early afternoon on Tuesday 29 January.
With just over two weeks to go, we can't quite believe you'll all be able to see inside shortly. There are still bits and bobs to do, but we're really looking forward to sharing all the hard work with you! 🙂
#ThursdayThoughts
2⃣0⃣1⃣8⃣ is finally here,
Surely our most exciting year
Join us on this thrilling ride,
And keep your 👀 open wide
We can't wait to share with you,
All that you'll look forward to
Having added to Dundee's skyline,
The first 🏴 museum of design!
🎉
Fantastic article from the BBC this morning about the history of Dundee and how it has become the creative and upcoming city that we now call our home.
Just over three weeks since we opened, we welcomed our 100,000th visitor this morning 🎉
To celebrate, the 100,000th visitor, Sheila Harkness and her family received V&A Dundee goodies along with a Family and Friends Membership. We can't wait to welcome them back 😄
We are honoured to welcome the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to officially open our museum.
They are expected to greet members of the public outside the museum on their departure, early this afternoon.
We are closed today and will reopen tomorrow at 10.00.
#RoyalVisitDundee
In our first year V&A Dundee delivered:
✅ £75m impact for Scotland
✅ £21m impact for Dundee
✅ £16m of new spending for Dundee businesses
✅ 370 new jobs for Dundee
Read more:
What a joy to watch two Scottish queens represent but also THRIVE in their first episode of
@dragraceukbbc
!
And to do so by referencing iconic Scottish design in bold, beautiful and original ways 🤩 We're going to need a wee moment.
We stan
@elliediamond101
@ShadyLawrence
❤️
The night before our public opening, over 150 singers from Dundee choirs sang Deacon Blue’s Dignity, arranged and conducted by
@alicemarramusic
🎶
Thanks to everyone from Loadsaweeminsingin', Duende Voices, Lochee Linties and The Noteables as well as Alice herself
We are over the moon to be shortlisted for
#MuseumOfTheYear
🎉
Whatever role you played in bringing the museum to life, THANK YOU! From everyone in the city to our architects, engineers and lenders. From funders and partners to museum staff and all of our 554,537 visitors ❤️
🤯🎉 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ 🎉🤯
If you’ve visited our museum since we opened in September 2018, you’re one in a million!
Thanks to every single one of you, and to everyone who made V&A Dundee possible.
Here’s to you and to everything we still have to come 🥂
1 month to go. That's 4 weeks. Or 31 days. 744 hours. A whole 44,640 minutes ⏱ Plenty of time to get everything ready for you 😅 Until then, feast your eyes on this 🤩
We are so, so sad to wake up to this heartbreaking news. Our thoughts are with
@GSofA
staff and students, and the firefighters who battled through the night.
It's September! We open two weeks today 🎉 To mark this momentous (and slightly overwhelming 😅) occasion here's a sneaky peek at Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Oak Room from during the conservation process.
🐋❤🐋❤🐋😍🐋❤🐋❤🐋
Graffiti writer and artist krime styles was busy today creating this stunning piece on the hoarding near the museum. Look at it 🤩
Part of a project kicked off by the City Centre Community Council, we can't wait to see it finished.
Thanks to
@TIME
magazine for including us in 'The World’s Greatest Places of 2019’ 🤩
Can't believe we're on a TIME magazine cover!
#covergirl
💁♀️
What a beautiful illustration
@PGreenwoodDraws
🥰
We’re excited to announce that the museum will reopen on Thursday 27 August 🎉
Measures will be in place to ensure a safe, welcoming and inspiring experience for all. Take a look below to see what you can expect from our reopening programme!
Info:
Everything is wonderful
Being here is heavenly 🎶
- Danny Wilson 🎼
That's a wrap! We hope you enjoyed the
#3DFestival
as much as we did ❤️
Thanks to
@GaryClarkMusic
and
@sistemascotland
for singing us out with such a glorious finale 🤩
Over the next three years V&A Dundee will develop into Scotland’s centre for design, supported by
@scotgov
We will continue to champion the value of design, and work with partners to enrich people’s lives through design as we all look towards recovery.
Hi
@VADundee
.
Did you update your profile picture to match the new boss's outfit?
Because if you did we love it and are here for it, and definitely think it's a thing that a Design Museum ™ should be doing
We've put together an essential guide to visiting the museum and 3D Festival over our opening weekend (Friday 14 – Sunday 16 September). One week to go! 😅😜🎉
Important facts here:
Dame Mary Quant (1930-2023)
We were honoured to share the Mary Quant exhibition with our visitors in 2020.
It’s impossible to overstate Quant’s contribution to fashion. She represented the joyful freedom of 1960s fashion, and provided a new kind of role model for young women.
We can't stop 😍 at this stunning image of Dundee and the Tay Road Bridge from across the water in Fife (and not just because we're in it). Thanks to Frame Focus Capture Photography for sharing 👌🏽
Massive thanks to everyone who have visited the museum, came to look at the building, attended the
#3DFestival
or even came to see us from the river 🚣♂️🤩🎉
It's been a week we're not going to forget in a hurry!
We're excited to unveil our large-scale installation by Scottish fashion designer Christopher Kane.
'Be open to the Joy you deserve' has been installed on our façade to spread a message of hope to the people of Dundee ♥️
Aaaand...we're open (again)! 🎉 It's been a wee while and we can't wait to see you 🥰
There's loads across the museum for you to see and explore 🤩 Remember to book your ticket before you visit! 🎫
More info on what to expect:
Historically, Dundee is a women's city. As weavers in the jute mills, women outnumbered men three to one. Check out
@VerdantWorks
to find out more.
Many crafts and industries represented in our gallery were driven by women.
Wee thread for
#InternationalWomenDay2020
#IWD2020
👇🏽
It's our 3rd birthday! 🥳✨
We'd like to thank everyone who has visited and supported us, you're all amazing ♥️
Do you have memories of your visit you'd like to share? Pop them below, we'd love to see them ☺️
What's that in the midnight blue?
We gaze open-mouthed, taken by surprise.
We can't believe our eyes.
It's swooping low...
⛄️ We're overjoyed to feature in
@irnbru
's new Christmas advert ⛄️
#BruSnowmanTwo
Today marks 50 years since the premiere of "The Cheviot, The Stag, and the Black, Black Oil" at
@the_artscentre
.
We are privileged to have the original set designed by John Byrne displayed in our Scottish Design Galleries, on loan from
@natlibscot
.
📸: Mick McGurk
🎉 Congratulations 🎉 to Dundee's very own Brian Cox for his Best Actor win at the
#GoldenGlobes
yesterday for Succession! ♥️
We loved hosting the filming of
#SuccessionHBO
😊 It was mad to see ourselves on the show 🤯
“I want to apologize to my fellow nominees for winning this.” A shocked Brian Cox accepts the award for best actor in a drama series for
#Succession
at the
#GoldenGlobes
Can you believe it's already been three months since we opened, and over 300,000 people have already visited the museum? 🤩
Let's look back to that amazing weekend... Spot yourself in the crowds! 👀
Thanks to Gary Clark and his band for playing Mary's Prayer 🎉
One hundred sixteen thousand, six hundred minutes and we'll be open ⌚️
This can also be measured in daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee. In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife... 🎶
📢 We're reopening Saturday 1 May 📢
🎵🕺Tickets are now on sale for Night Fever: Designing Club Culture, the first major exhibition exploring the relationship between club culture and design from the 1960s to today 🕺🎵
#VADNightFever
Book now 👇
Our first exhibition will be Ocean Liners: Speed and Style 🛳
Fresh from
@V_and_A
, this beautiful show re-imagines the golden age of ocean travel and explores its impact on design and culture:
blue | /bluː/ | adjective
💙 "of a colour intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or sea on a sunny day."
You got that right, dictionary! 😍
Such a JOY to photograph the museum this morning for the first time after months of staying away 🥰 Our building certainly turned out some looks for us 💅🏽
☀️ And what a day! ☀️
#DundeeCAN
We want to thank everyone who has contributed to making our museum a reality: every supporter and workshop participant, every person we've met and community we've had the pleasure to work with. We can't wait for you all to get up close and step inside! 😊😃
We've had lots of furry visitors wandering around outside the museum today. They look like they're having a nice time 🐶
We wish they could come in and play with us 😭 Guide dogs, hearing dogs and other recognised assistance dogs are of course welcome 💛
We are saddened to learn of John Byrne's death, he truly was a creative Scottish visionary, playwright and designer.
We proudly display Byrne’s pop-up stage in our Scottish Design Galleries, designed in 1973 for The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil.
We’re working with
@DundeeCouncil
and
@dundeeuni
to explore the feasibility of an ‘Eden Project Scotland’ in Dundee. it's part of our portfolio of regenerative international projects with an overarching theme of humanity’s connection to the natural world.
Today we celebrate 70 years of Dennis the Menace, making his first appearance in the
@BeanoOfficial
in 1951 💥
Feast your eyes on David Law's comic strip from 1960 👀👇
#Dennis70
When designing our museum, architect Kengo Kuma was inspired by the beauty of Scotland's cliffs and aimed to capture that in a contemporary building. Have a look for yourself 🌊🤩
"...the small seaside city of Dundee makes a compelling case..."
@toddkingston
writes about Dundee in
@voguemagazine
, calling it "an emerging hub for Scottish creativity". And we couldn't agree more 😊