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Dundee

Jute, comics and Captain Scott's ship.

Dundee is a city on the river, and much of what's worth seeing sits along the Tay. On the waterfront, Scotland's design museum leans out over the water beside the ship that carried Captain Scott to Antarctica in 1901. In town there's a Gothic museum built as a memorial to Prince Albert, a jute mill of 1833 with its machines still working, and bronze characters from the Beano and the Dandy on the High Street. East along the shore, Broughty Ferry has its castle and a long sandy beach. Several of the museums are free, and the city sights are close enough to walk between.

Broughty Castle→
Travel back in time to the Coastal Fort of Broughty Castle→
The McManus Art Gallery and Museum→
The Howff→
Gallery Q→
Broughty Ferry→
Dundee Contemporary Arts→
Strawberry Bank→
The Bach→
Verdant Works→
V&A Dundee→
Oor Wullie Statue→
Place of the day20 hours ago

Fisher & Donaldson, Dundee.

The Dundee shop of the Fife family bakers founded in 1919, home of the famous fudge doughnut.

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Did you know19 hours ago

The High Mill at Verdant Works, in Dundee, holds a Boulton and Watt beam engine from 1801 that once worked in the city.

The restored beam engine is on loan from Dundee City Council. It is one of the oldest and largest items in the Verdant Works museum, a former jute mill.

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Dundee this autumn, in our photographs.

Six places in Dundee, each as we found it.

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In Dundee19 hours ago

Dundee Museum of Transport is moving into the old Maryfield Tram Depot, and opens there in October 2027.

The depot has stood for more than 125 years and has never been open to the public before. The museum's last day at Market Mews is 31 October, and it is raising £20,000 to move its collection.

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Places to visit18 hours ago

Travel back in time to the Coastal Fort of Broughty Castle.

Sitting on the banks of the River Tay, Broughty Castle is believed to have looked over the land of its namesake suburb since the 15th century.

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Did you know18 hours ago

Verdant Works, in Dundee, was later used to cure rabbit skins.

In the 1900s the jute mill was used by Alexander Thomson & Sons to recycle jute waste, to cure rabbit skins and to deal in scrap metal.

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From our guide18 hours ago

Broughty Ferry.

Broughty Ferry began as a fishing and ferry village round its castle, four miles east of Dundee's city centre. In the 1800s the jute barons built their mansions on the slopes above, and it became known as the richest square mile in Europe. It joined the city in 1913, and today it's Dundee's seaside. Brook Street is lined with independent shops, cafés and bars under strings of bunting, and a promenade follows the shore to the castle and the beach. The harbour pier has a story of its own. From 1851 it served one of the first train ferries, carrying railway wagons across the Tay to Tayport.

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Did you know17 hours ago

The Tay Road Bridge into Dundee was one of the longest road bridges in Europe when the Queen Mother opened it on 18 August 1966.

It runs about 2,250 metres across the Firth of Tay from Fife on 42 spans.Forty years on, new bearings and strengthening work between 2005 and 2008 cost £21.7 million, more than five times what the whole bridge had cost to build. The tolls were abolished on 11 February 2008, and crossing has been free ever since.

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Places to visit17 hours ago

The Bach.

A New Zealand-run brunch café in Albert Square, Dundee, cooking over fire, with good coffee and Scottish craft beer.

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True or false17 hours ago

True or false: the sticky postage stamp was invented by a bookseller from Dundee.

From the JournalThe journal16 hours ago

The Beano Appears on Shelves, 30 July 1938

On 30 July 1938, a worried-looking ostrich turned up at the newsagents, as The Beano made its debut, published out of Dundee by DC Thomson. Big Eggo was the cover star, frantic over a missing egg. The artwork was bold and the...

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Did you know16 hours ago

The architect of V&A Dundee drew the museum from the sea cliffs of north-eastern Scotland.

Kengo Kuma, who designed V&A Dundee, says he was inspired by the cliffs of north-eastern Scotland. He describes the building as though earth and water had talked together over a long time and finally made its shape. His big idea was to bring together nature and architecture.

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