Dundee, City of Discovery and V&A

[Rob MacKillop]

Phone shot.



On the left is the new Victoria and Albert museum, housing a Scottish Design Gallery and a visiting-exhibition gallery. It's a wonderful building, even in the rain. On the right is HMS Discovery, built for Antarctic research expeditions in 1901. The architect of the museum has clearly put a lot of thought into the site situation, and Dundee's maritime history. I enjoyed my visit yesterday.

 

[Rense Haveman]

Wouldn't have thought that the left 'thing' was a building...

Got a nephew studying in Dundee....

 

[Rob MacKillop]

It's my home town. Spent most of my life there, and really miss it.

 

[Rense Haveman]

It's my home town. Spent most of my life there, and really miss it.

It's the part of Scotland where the weather is not only horrible. Oban, where my sis lives, is like living under the ocean surface, it's always wet... When I visited Dundee two years ago, I saw the sun!

 

[Pete Askew]

Fabulous juxtaposition. Makes the Discovery seem more solid.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

It was fairly solid already, designed to break through ice, or survive being crushed by it for months on end.

The museum is worth visiting again, though half of it seems to be given over to feeding the populace.