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Catalogue of our Oil Paintings now on sale
After over three years of work, all of Dundee's publicly owned oil paintings have been published in a lavish, fully ilustrated colour hardback catalogue, thanks to the Public Catalogue Foundation charity. The catalogue includes all of the University's collections of paintings - over 800 in total - which comprise the Duncan of Jordanstone College Collection, the Tayside Medical History Museum Art Collection and the other University of Dundee Fine Art Collections.
To create the catalogue, all of the University's paintings had to be specially photographed, a process which took over a year to cover the 54 buildings and departments where artworks are displayed or stored.
The catalogue is available to buy now from the University's online store, and each purchase helps to support the care and development of the collections.
75 Years of The Dandy
The latest exhibition in the Lamb Gallery celebrates the 75th birthday of the world’s third-longest running comic, The Dandy, created by Dundee publishers D C Thomson. The first issue of The Dandy was dated 4th December 1937 and it was an instant success. At its height of popularity in the early 1950s it was selling an astonishing two million copies a week.
The exhibition features original artwork from DC Thomson’s collections dating back to the earliest years of the comic, much of which has never been shown in public before. All the classic favourites are here, including Desperate Dan, Korky the Cat, Winker Watson and Black Bob.
The exhibition has been created as part of an on-going partnership between DC Thomson & Co Ltd, the University of Dundee Museum Services and the newly established Scottish Centre for Comics Studies based at the University. It runs until 12 January.
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Benefiting from the Facts
The latest exhibition in the Tower Foyer Gallery highlights some of the many benefactors who have made notable contributions to the development of the University of Dundee and its various affiliated institutions, including Duncan of Jordanstone College, the Dental Hospital & School and Dundee Royal Infirmary. Who was Duncan of Jordanstone? Who were the Harris Building and Bonar Hall named after? This exhibition will tell you!
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Maternal & Child Health Exhibition
The latest exhibition at the Tayside Medical History Museum looks at how obstetric and child care has progressed from the days of high maternal and infant mortality through to some of the latest advances in diabetes, cystic fibrosis and in vitro fertilisation, with a particular emphasis on developments in Dundee and Tayside. Important historical figures such as R C Buist, Margaret Fairlie and James Walker are showcased alongside recent ground-breaking projects in tackling chilhood diabetes and cystic fibrosis.
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Arctic Photographs at Discovery Point
In the 1890s two young naturalists were sent on expeditions to the Arctic to collect specimens for the Zoology Museum of Professor D'Arcy Thompson at University College, Dundee. They also took photographic equipment with them and captured some fascinating shots of life among the whalers and the native people of some of the northernmost settlements on Earth.
Drawn from three separate collections, these photographs are being exhibited together for the first time in this touring exhibition, created by the University of Dundee Museum Services in partnership with the University of St Andrews School of Art History, the University of St Andrews Library Special Collections, Dundee Art Galleries and Museums and Perth Museum and Art Gallery.
The exhibition is on show at Discovery Point until 10 January 2013. Click here for further information.
£100,000 Art Fund Grant
Museum Services has been awarded a grant from the Art Fund of £100,000 to build a collection of art inspired by D'Arcy Thompson, the University's first Professor of Biology.
D'Arcy Thompson was the founder of the University's Zoology Museum and a pioneering interdisciplinary scientist, but he also had an extraordinary influence on art and design that continues to this day. Famous artists such as Henry Moore, Richard Hamilton and Jackson Pollock drew on his work and many of today's artists draw on his work and the collections of the D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum. The grant, part of the Art Fund's RENEW scheme, will allow the University to acquire 20th century artworks as well as to work with contemporary artists to create new pieces for the collection.
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New Physics Display
A new permanent display of historic Physics instruments has been unveiled in the foyer of the Harris Building in the Geddes Quadrangle. It includes some of the earliest equipment used in the department as well as more recent items such as material relating to the pioneering experiments in amorphous silicon carried out in the 1970s and 80s by Walter Spear and Peter LeComber. The display is to be a permanent feature of the building and can be seen by visitors during normal working hours.
Vist the Physics collection website to find out more.
See our collections on Flickr
We've recently uploaded more images of our objects, specimens, displays and exhibitions onto the Flickr website. Why not check it out here?
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