Editing Aberdeen (section)

==Culture==
{{Main|Culture in Aberdeen}}

The city has a wide range of cultural activities, amenities, and museums,<ref>{{cite web |title=Aberdeen Culture |url=http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/culture/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328201317/http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/culture/ |archive-date=28 March 2017 |access-date=27 March 2017 |publisher=Aberdeen City Council}}</ref> and is regularly visited by [[Scotland's National Arts Companies]]. It was awarded the Nicholson Trophy for the best-kept town at the [[Britain in Bloom]] contest in 1975.<ref>{{cite news |date=29 July 1975 |title=Aberdeen wins Bloom Trophy |newspaper=[[Evening Express (Scotland)|Evening Express]] |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19750729/109/0007 |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 May 2022 |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]] |archive-date=7 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230907051855/https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/account/register?countrykey=0&showgiftvoucherclaimingoptions=false&gift=false&nextpage=%2faccount%2flogin%3freturnurl%3d%252fviewer%252fbl%252f0000445%252f19750729%252f109%252f0007&rememberme=false&cookietracking=false&partnershipkey=0&newsletter=false&offers=false&registerreason=none&showsubscriptionoptions=false&showcouponmessaging=false&showfreetrialmessaging=false&showregisteroptions=false&showloginoptions=false&showcaptchaerrormessage=false&isonlyupgradeable=false |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Galleries and museums===

[[File:8th Dec 2012-Martime Museum, Shiprow.JPG|thumb|right|Maritime Museum, Shiprow<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aagm.co.uk/code/emuseum.asp?page=buildings_maritime_museum|title=Aberdeen Maritime Museum|publisher=Aberdeen Art Galleries and Museums|access-date=18 February 2007| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070202182001/http://www.aagm.co.uk/code/emuseum.asp?page=buildings_maritime_museum| archive-date = 2 February 2007}}</ref>]]
[[File:Satrosphere, Links Road - geograph.org.uk - 401659.jpg|thumb|right|[[Aberdeen Science Centre]], Links Road Science Museum]]

The [[Aberdeen Art Gallery]] houses a collection of [[Impressionist]], Victorian, Scottish and 20th-century British paintings as well as collections of silver and glass. It also includes The Alexander Macdonald Bequest, a collection of late 19th-century works donated by the museum's first benefactor and a constantly changing collection of contemporary work and regular visiting exhibitions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aagm.co.uk/code/emuseum.asp?page=buildings_art_gallery|title=Aberdeen Art Gallery|publisher=Aberdeen Art Galleries and Museums|access-date=18 February 2007| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061206030716/http://www.aagm.co.uk/code/emuseum.asp?page=buildings_art_gallery| archive-date = 6 December 2006}}</ref> The Aberdeen Art Gallery reopened in 2019 after a four-year refurbishment costing £34.6m.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2 November 2019 |title=Aberdeen Art Gallery reopens after £34.6m revamp|publisher=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-50263849 |access-date=17 April 2022 |archive-date=17 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417102113/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-50263849 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Aberdeen Maritime Museum]], located in [[Shiprow]], tells the story of Aberdeen's links with the sea from the days of sail and [[clipper ships]] to the latest oil and gas exploration technology. It includes an {{convert|8.5|m|ft|adj=mid|-high}} model of the Murchison oil production platform and a 19th-century assembly taken from [[Rattray Head]] lighthouse
[[Provost John Ross|Provost Ross' House]] is the second oldest dwelling house in the city. It was built in 1593 and became the residence of [[Provost John Ross]] of Arnage in 1702. The house retains some original [[medieval]] features, including a kitchen, fireplaces and beam-and-board ceilings.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst1498.html| title=Provost Ross' House| publisher=The Gazetteer for Scotland| access-date=18 February 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714032323/http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst1498.html| archive-date=14 July 2011| url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Gordon Highlanders Museum]] tells the story of one of Scotland's best known regiments.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.armymuseums.org.uk/amot-search/default.asp?Category=Amot&Service=Museum-Display&reference=0000000037| title=The Gordon Highlanders Museum| publisher=Army Museums Ogilby Trust| access-date=18 February 2007| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926170944/http://www.armymuseums.org.uk/amot-search/default.asp?Category=Amot&Service=Museum-Display&reference=0000000037| archive-date=26 September 2006}}</ref>

[[Provost Skene's House]] on Flourmill Lane dates from 1545 and is the oldest surviving townhouse in the city. It reopened in October 2021 after significant refurbishment costing £3.8m.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=8 October 2021 |title=Provost Skene's House in Aberdeen reopens with 'hall of heroes'|publisher=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-58838482 |access-date=29 November 2022 |archive-date=29 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129154352/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-58838482 |url-status=live }}</ref> One of the new exhibitions is a Hall of Heroes featuring 100 Aberdonians who have made a significant contribution to the city.<ref>{{Cite web |date=11 April 2022 |title=Provost Skene's House {{!}} Aberdeen City Council |url=https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/AAGM/plan-your-visit/provost-skenes-house |access-date=29 November 2022 |website=aberdeencity.gov.uk|archive-date=29 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129154358/https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/AAGM/plan-your-visit/provost-skenes-house |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":2" />

The [[The Tolbooth, Aberdeen|Tollbooth Museum]] on the Castlegate (currently closed to visitors) is a former jail, which first opened as a public museum in 1995.<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 May 2022 |title=The Tolbooth Museum {{!}} Aberdeen City Council |url=https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/AAGM/plan-your-visit/tolbooth-museum |access-date=29 November 2022 |website=aberdeencity.gov.uk|archive-date=29 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129154844/https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/AAGM/plan-your-visit/tolbooth-museum |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Aberdeen Treasure Hub is a storage facility for Aberdeen Museums and Galleries containing over 100,000 items.<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 November 2022 |title=Aberdeen Treasure Hub {{!}} Aberdeen City Council |url=https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/AAGM/plan-your-visit/aberdeen-treasure-hub |access-date=29 November 2022 |website=aberdeencity.gov.uk|archive-date=29 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129155314/https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/AAGM/plan-your-visit/aberdeen-treasure-hub |url-status=live }}</ref> The store is open for infrequent tours, for example as part of [[Doors Open Days|Doors Open Day]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aberdeen Treasure Hub Museum Centre » VisitAberdeenshire |url=https://visitabdn.com/listing/aberdeen-treasure-hub-museum-centre |access-date=29 November 2022 |website=VisitAberdeenshire|archive-date=29 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129155315/https://www.visitabdn.com/listing/aberdeen-treasure-hub-museum-centre |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Marischal Museum]] holds the principal collections of the [[University of Aberdeen]], comprising some 80,000 items in the areas of fine art, Scottish history and archaeology, and European, Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology. The permanent displays and reference collections are augmented by regular temporary exhibitions, and since its closure to the public it now has a virtual online presence<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/museum/ |title=Marischal Museum: Introduction |publisher=University of Aberdeen |access-date=18 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070207094529/http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/museum/ |archive-date=7 February 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It closed to the public in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abdn.ac.uk/marischal_museum/visiting_contacting.shtml |title=Marischal Museum. Visiting and Contacting the Museum. University of Aberdeen |publisher=Abdn.ac.uk |access-date=28 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113075307/http://www.abdn.ac.uk/marischal_museum/visiting_contacting.shtml |archive-date=13 November 2012 }}</ref> The [[King's Museum]] acts as the main museum of the university now.<ref>{{Cite web|title=King's Museum|url=https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/organisations/kings-museum|access-date=11 March 2021|website=The University of Aberdeen|archive-date=8 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008155146/https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/organisations/kings-museum|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Festivals and performing arts===
Aberdeen is home to a number of events and festivals including the [[Aberdeen International Youth Festival]] (the world's largest arts festival for young performers), Aberdeen Jazz Festival, [[Aberdeen Alternative Festival]], Rootin' Aboot (a folk and roots music event), Triptych, the [[University of Aberdeen]]'s annual May Fest (formerly the [[Word – University of Aberdeen writers festival|Word]] festival) and DanceLive, Scotland's only festival of contemporary dance, produced by the city's Citymoves dance organisation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/4116950/aberdeen-dance-agency-citymoves-springs-into-35th-anniversary-celebrations/|title=Aberdeen Dance Agency Citymoves springs into 35th anniversary celebrations|newspaper=Press and Journal|date=6 April 2022|access-date=8 October 2022|archive-date=8 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008161827/https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/4116950/aberdeen-dance-agency-citymoves-springs-into-35th-anniversary-celebrations/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[Aberdeen Student Show]], performed annually without interruption since 1921, under the auspices of the Aberdeen Students' Charities Campaign, is the longest-running of its kind in the United Kingdom. It is written, produced and performed by students and graduates of Aberdeen's universities and higher education institutions. Since 1929—other than on a handful of occasions—it has been staged at [[His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen|His Majesty's Theatre]].<ref>Edi Swan: ''His Majesty's Theatre – One Hundred Years of Glorious Damnation'' ([[Black & White Publishing]]) (2006) {{ISBN|978-1-84502-102-3}}</ref>

National festivals which visited Aberdeen in 2012 included the [[British Science Festival]] in September, hosted by the [[University of Aberdeen]] but with events also taking place at [[Robert Gordon University]] and at other venues across the city. In February 2012 the University of Aberdeen also hosted the [[Inter Varsity Folk Dance Festival]], the longest-running folk festival in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/4277/|title=Dancers descend on Aberdeen|date=1 March 2012|publisher=University of Aberdeen|access-date=8 October 2022|archive-date=8 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008162307/https://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/4277/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Aberdeen is home to Spectra, an annual light festival hosted in different locations across the city.<ref>{{Cite web|title=SPECTRA ABERDEEN|url=https://www.spectrafestival.co.uk/|access-date=16 February 2022|website=SPECTRA ABERDEEN|archive-date=16 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220216172507/https://www.spectrafestival.co.uk/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Aberdeen is home to [[NuArt Festival|Nuart]], a festival showcasing street art around the city. The festival has run since 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nuart Aberdeen – Bringing Street Art into The Mainstream |url=https://visitabdn.com/listing/nuart-aberdeen |access-date=17 April 2022 |website=VisitAberdeenshire|archive-date=17 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517032946/https://www.visitabdn.com/listing/nuart-aberdeen |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2020, the WayWORD Festival<ref>{{cite web |title=WayWORD Festival |url=https://www.waywordfestival.com/ |website=WayWORD Festival |access-date=25 April 2024 |archive-date=25 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240425195708/https://www.waywordfestival.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> was launched by the [[University of Aberdeen]] WORD centre for creative writing. This yearly programme celebrates the arts through readings, performances, workshops and discussion panels. There have been many notable headliners including [[Val McDermid]], [[Irvine Welsh]] and [[Douglas Stuart (writer)]].

Galas are held annually throughout the city, the most notable being the Culter Gala, which is usually held on the last Saturday of May.

===Dialect===
{{Main|Doric dialect (Scotland)}}

The local dialect of [[Scots language|Lowland Scots]] is often known as Doric and is spoken not just in the city, but across the northeast of Scotland. It differs somewhat from other Scots dialects: most noticeable are the pronunciation "f" for what is normally written "wh" and "ee" for what in standard English would usually be written "oo" (Scots "ui"). Every year the annual Doric Festival takes place in Aberdeenshire to celebrate the history of the north-east's language.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thedoricfestival.com |title=The Doric Festival |publisher=The Doric Festival |access-date=25 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090701091235/http://www.thedoricfestival.com/ |archive-date=1 July 2009}}</ref>

===Media and music===
{{Main|Media in Aberdeen}}

Aberdeen is home to Scotland's oldest newspaper [[Press and Journal (Scotland)|the ''Press and Journal'']], a local and regional newspaper first published in 1747. The ''Press and Journal'' and its sister paper the [[tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]] ''[[Evening Express (Scotland)|Evening Express]]'' are printed six days a week by [[Aberdeen Journals]]. There was one free newspaper, the ''[[Aberdeen Citizen]]''. [[BBC Scotland]] has a network studio production base in the city's Beechgrove area, and BBC Aberdeen produces ''The Beechgrove Potting Shed'' for radio while Tern Television produces ''[[The Beechgrove Garden]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beechgrove.co.uk/home/Default.asp |title=The Beechgrove Garden |publisher=Tern Television |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309101130/http://www.beechgrove.co.uk/home/Default.asp |archive-date=9 March 2012 }}</ref> The city is also home to [[STV North]] (formerly Grampian Television), which produces the regional news programmes such as ''[[STV News at Six]]'', as well as local commercials. The station, based at Craigshaw Business Park in [[Tullos]], was based at larger studios in [[Queens Cross]] from September 1961 until June 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ooko.com/grampiantv/the-grampian-story/|title=The Grampian Story|publisher=Grampian Television Studios|access-date=8 October 2022|archive-date=8 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008163119/http://www.ooko.com/grampiantv/the-grampian-story/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

There are three commercial radio stations operating in the city, [[Northsound 1]], [[Greatest Hits Radio North East Scotland]], and independent station [[Original 106 (Scotland)|Original 106]], along with the [[community radio]] station shmu FM<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.shmufm.net |title=Shmu community media productions |publisher=Shmufm.net |access-date=25 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725080516/http://www.shmufm.net/ |archive-date=25 July 2008 |url-status=usurped }}</ref> managed by Station House Media Unit which supports community members to run Aberdeen's full-time community radio station, broadcasting on <span style="white-space:nowrap;">99.8&nbsp;MHz</span> FM.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shmu.org.uk |title=Shmu community media productions |publisher=Shmu.org.uk |access-date=25 June 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090619133757/http://www.shmu.org.uk/| archive-date= 19 June 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref>

Music venues include [[The Music Hall (Aberdeen)|Aberdeen Music Hall]] and the [[P&J Live]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musichallaberdeen.com/History.php|title=Music Hall – History & Tour|access-date=5 February 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070222190827/http://www.musichallaberdeen.com/History.php <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 22 February 2007}}</ref>

===Food===
[[File:Aberdeen Buttery.jpg|thumb|Aberdeen butteries, also known as rowies, served with jam]]The Aberdeen region has given its name to a number of dishes, including the [[Buttery (bread)|Aberdeen buttery]] (also known as "rowie")<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eatscotland.visitscotland.com/food-drink/traditional-dishes/aberdeen-rowie.html |title=Aberdeen_Rowie |work=EatScotlank.com (Scotland's National Tourism Organisation) |access-date=23 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316221238/http://eatscotland.visitscotland.com/food-drink/traditional-dishes/aberdeen-rowie.html |archive-date=16 March 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> and Aberdeen Sausage.<ref>{{cite book|author-last=de Lafayette|author-first=Maximillien|title=Hospitality and Food Best and Worst|publisher=American Hospitality Institute|year=2007|url=https://archive.org/details/hospitalityfoodb0000dela/page/301|page=301|isbn=9781434819697}}</ref>

In 2015, a study was published in [[The Scotsman]] which analysed the presence of [[Fast food restaurant|branded fast food outlets]] in Scotland. Of the ten towns and cities analysed, Aberdeen was found to have the lowest per capita concentration, with just 0.12 stores per 1,000 inhabitants.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/livingston-named-scotland-s-fast-food-capital-1-3797055 | title=Livingston named Scotland's fast food capital | access-date=1 July 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725014641/http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/livingston-named-scotland-s-fast-food-capital-1-3797055 | archive-date=25 July 2015 | url-status=live }}</ref>