Editing Dundee (section)

===Museums and galleries===
[[File:McManus Galleries.jpg|thumb|left|The [[McManus Galleries]] in the city's Albert Square]]

The city's main museum and art gallery, [[McManus Galleries]], is in Albert Square.<ref>{{harvnb|Day|Milne|2010|p=30 }}</ref> The exhibits include work by [[James McIntosh Patrick]], [[Alberto Morrocco]] and [[David McClure (artist)|David McClure]] amongst the collection of fine and decorative art, items from Dundee's history and natural history artefacts. [[Dundee Contemporary Arts]] (abbreviated DCA) opened in 1999 is an international art centre in the Nethergate close to Dundee Rep, which houses two contemporary art galleries, a two-screen arthouse cinema, a print studio, a visual research centre and a café bar.<ref>{{harvnb|Jarron|2011|p=183 }}</ref> Britain's only full-time public [[observatory]], [[Mills Observatory]] at the summit of the city's [[Balgay]] Hill, was given to the city by linen manufacturer and keen amateur scientist John Mills in 1935.<ref>{{harvnb|Day|Milne|2010|p=47 }}</ref> [[Dundee Science Centre]] in the Greenmarket is a science centre based on the five senses with a series of interactive shows and exhibits.<ref>{{harvnb|Day|Milne|2010|p=20 }}</ref> [[Verdant Works]] is a museum dedicated to the once dominant jute industry in Dundee and is based in a former jute mill.<ref>Gale & Kaur (2002) p. 187; Dundee Heritage Trust (1998) pp. 1-3</ref>

The [[University of Dundee]] also runs several public museums and galleries, including the D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum and the Tayside Medical History Museum. The university, through [[Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design]] also offers the Cooper Gallery for contemporary art, and its archives including: the abcD (artists' books collection Dundee); the REWIND Archive (video art collection); and the [[Richard Demarco]] Digital Archive.

The [[V&A Dundee]] Museum of Design opened in September 2018 and is built south of Craig Harbour onto the [[River Tay]] in a building designed by [[Kengo Kuma]]. It was officially opened by the [[Prince William, Duke of Cambridge|Earl and Countess of Strathearn]] in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dingwall |first1=Blair |title=William and Kate will officially open V&A on royal visit to Dundee on Tuesday |url=https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/dundee/816641/william-and-kate-will-officially-open-va-on-royal-visit-to-dundee-on-tuesday/ |website=Dundee Courier |date=28 January 2019 |access-date=28 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129010544/https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/dundee/816641/william-and-kate-will-officially-open-va-on-royal-visit-to-dundee-on-tuesday/ |archive-date=29 January 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> It is the centrepiece of the city's waterfront redevelopment. The new museum may bring another 500,000 extra visitors to the city and create up to 900 jobs.<ref name="V&A Museum of Design, Dundee">{{harvnb|Dundee to get its own V&A museum }}</ref>

[[File:"The Riders of the Sidhe" John Duncan 1911 McManus Galleries, Dundee.jpg|thumb|right|"The Riders of the Sidhe" John Duncan 1911 McManus Galleries, Dundee]]

The city's archival records are mostly kept by two archives: Dundee City Archives, operated by [[Dundee City Council]] and the [[University of Dundee]]'s Archive Services.
Dundee City Archives holds the official records of the city and of the former [[Tayside Regional Council]].<ref name="City Archives">{{cite web |title=Archives |url=http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/archive/ |publisher=[[Dundee City Council]] |access-date=17 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105064700/http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/archive/ |archive-date=5 November 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> The archive also holds the records of various people, groups and organisations connected to the city. The university's Archive Services hold a wide range of material relating to the university and its predecessor institutions and to individuals associated with the university, such as [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]]. Archive Services also holds the archives of several individuals, businesses and organisations based in Dundee and the surrounding area.<ref name="University of Dundee Archive Services">{{cite web |title=University of Dundee Archives Services |url=http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives |publisher=University of Dundee |access-date=2 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614032353/http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/ |archive-date=14 June 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> The records held include a substantial number of business archives relating to the jute and linen industry in Dundee; records of other businesses including the archives of the [[Alliance Trust]] and the department store G. L. Wilson; the records of the Brechin Diocese of the [[Scottish Episcopal Church]]; and the [[NHS Tayside]] Archive.<ref name="University of Dundee Archive Services2">{{cite web |title=University of Dundee Archives Services the Collections |url=http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/archman.htm |publisher=University of Dundee |access-date=2 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023152251/http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/archman.htm |archive-date=23 October 2013 }}</ref><ref name="Archives, Records and Artefacts">{{cite web |title=Business Archives |date=27 January 2011 |url=http://www.archives-records-artefacts.blogspot.com/2011/01/business-archives.html |publisher=Archives, Records and Artefacts at the University of Dundee |access-date=5 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315133547/http://www.archives-records-artefacts.blogspot.com/2011/01/business-archives.html |archive-date=15 March 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> The same archive also holds the [[Michael Peto]] collection which includes thousands of the [[photojournalist]]'s photographs, negatives, slides, publications and papers.<ref name="University of Dundee Archive Services Peto">[http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives//peto/ "Michael Peto Photographic Collection"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315060307/http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/peto/ |date=15 March 2016 }}, University of Dundee. Retrieved 26 May 2011.</ref>