V&A Dundee

V&A Dundee is a design museum in , Scotland, which opened on 15 September 2018. The V&A Dundee is the first design museum in Scotland and the first Victoria and Albert museum outside London.
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  • Opening hours: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: Museum of design in Dundee, Scotland, a branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum of London
  • Address: 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee, DD1 4EZ
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include RRS Discovery and Dundee railway station.

is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built in Dundee, Scotland for research. Launched in 1901, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in the .

Railway station
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serves the city of on the east coast of . It is situated on the northern, non-electrified section of the East Coast Main Line, 59+1⁄4 miles northeast of . is situated 590 feet west of V&A Dundee.

Museum
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RRS Discovery is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built in Dundee, Scotland for research. Launched in 1901, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in the . is situated 430 feet southwest of V&A Dundee.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dundee and Dundee city centre.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an industrial city and port, historically part of county in northeast Scotland. It stands on the north bank of the River Tay, which here broadens out into the North Sea, and in 2022 had a population of 148,000.

Suburb
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Until the Industrial Revolution, the current City Centre represented the full extent of the City of , Scotland. Now roughly encircled by the A991 dual carriageway, the city centre is now the main shopping and commercial district.

Suburb
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in , , is a mainly residential area to the north of the City Centre and lying to the south of the main circular road.

V&A Dundee

Latitude
56.45722° or 56° 27′ 26″ north
Longitude
-2.96684° or 2° 58′ 1″ west
Levels
3
Height
59 feet (18 metres)
Open location code
9C8VF24M+V7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 473455999
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q43674688
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“V&A Dundee” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “V&A Dundee”
  • Chinese: “V&A丹地”
  • Danish: “V&A Dundee”
  • Dutch: “V&A Dundee”
  • French: “V&A Dundee”
  • Hebrew: “ויקטוריה ואלברט דנדי”
  • Japanese: “V&Aダンディー”
  • Japanese: “ビクトリア・アンド・アルバート美術館ダンディー分館”
  • Swedish: “V&A Dundee”
  • Swedish: “Victoria and Albert Museum”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include V&A Dundee Community Garden and Dundee Waterfront Gardens.

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