Visitor Information

Where to Find Us

At present the University has no permanent Museum building in which to display its Collections. Instead, the Curator stages a variety of temporary exhibitions and permanent displays. You can find most of the buildings listed below on the interactive campus map.

Tower Building

You can see regular exhibitions from the Collections in the Tower Foyer Gallery on the ground floor and the Lamb Gallery on the first floor. There are also works of art on display in the Baxter Conference Suite foyer, the River Rooms and other parts of the building.
The Tower Foyer and Lamb Galleries are open Mon-Fri 09.30-19.00 Sat 13.00-17.00 (shorter hours may apply during University vacations).

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Tower Building by J McIntosh Patrick

Carnelley Building

This houses the D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum, open Fridays afternoons during the summer and by appointment at other times.

Dalhousie Building

Numerous artworks from the collections are on display in the corridors and stairwells of this building, notably some significant artists' prints, displayed in Block 2.

Harris Building

In the foyer you can see a permanent display of historic Physics instruments and equipment.

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University House

This house (built as Elmslea in 1864 and home to two significant art collectors, William Ritchie and John Robertson) has traditionally been used as the Principal's Residence, and hosts some of our most impressive paintings, including works by Raeburn, McTaggart, Cadell and John Duncan. An appointment is required to visit.

West Park House

Now a conference centre, the house was originally built for Sir William Henderson, one of the principal benefactors of Dundee's Art College. We have more fine art on display here, including works by John Phillip, David Foggie and John Thomson of Duddingston. Again, an appointment is required.

Chaplaincy

Various artworks are displayed in this building, as well as a stunning carved stone cross by Hew Lorimer.

Medical School

Ninewells Hospital is the venue for the Tayside Medical History Museum, showing regular exhibitions on local medical history, as well as a collection of fine portraits from Dundee Royal Infirmary.

And the rest...

There are other permanent displays in:

Comparative Anatomy - Dental School
Mechanical Engineering - Fulton Building
Law and Psychology - Scrymgeour Building
and more...

For everything else, and for further information, please visit our office and storerooms at Hawkhill House, 5-7 Hawkhill Place

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Hawkhill House

Other Information

Re-Use of Public Sector Information Regulations

Museum Services (i.e. the part of the University responsible for the management of the University’s museum collections) is not part of the University Library and not subject to the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations. However, Museum Services is happy to consider requests for the reuse of information they create, although any such reuse may be chargeable. Please contact us with questions or requests for reuse.

Posts held by the Curator:

Lifelong Learning Tutor in Film History
Committee member of the Tayside Museums Forum
Events Organiser and Journal Orders for the Scottish Society for Art History
Secretary of the Abertay Historical Society
Committee member of the University's Culture & Arts Committee

This website has a link to it from the Saatchi Gallery.