Dundee Culture

The incredible resurgence of Mills Observatory | Dundee Culture 2025 marks a very special year for one of the city’s most beloved institutions.Mills Observatory will be turning 90 this year and it’s fought tooth and nail to get to where it is today - and it’s easy...

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🍰🎲❤️ Cake or Dice is a board game cafe on Dundee’s Commercial Street! Come and have a look at what they’ve got on offer!

💘🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💌 Wishing all you Dundonian lovebirds, hopeless romantics, and everyone celebrating a very happy Valentine’s Day! Whether you’re spending it with your soulmate, your best mates, or just treating yourself to something special, may your day be filled with love, laughter, and plenty of sweet moments.

The UPS are aiming to raise £650,000 by April 2025. We are the key to this and to Unicorn's future. For every £1 donated, they will receive a further £10 from these charity grants.

HMS Unicorn has just received nearly £800,000 in funding for restoration works | Dundee Culture The HMS Unicorn is one step closer to its ambitious restoration goal, thanks to an award from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for almost £800,000. This funding is another key milestone in the vesse...

The Unicorn Preservation Society (UPS) have also just launched their new website for the HMS Unicorn where they have added their new fundraising appeal to unlock an additional £10m of grants that await if they can match this Lottery award.

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🚨🚨🚨 NEW: HMS Unicorn has just received nearly £800,000 in funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for its ongoing restoration as Project Safe Haven begins to take it's next steps!

Brian Cox is returning to where it all began in a new play at the Dundee Rep | Dundee Culture Dundee-born actor Brian Cox, famous for his role as Logan Roy in hit drama Succession, is set to return to his hometown to star in a new play. He will play the ghost of Adam Smith's in Make It Happen,...

He will take on the role of Adam Smith’s ghost in Make It Happen, a satirical comedy about the Royal Bank of Scotland’s role in the 2008 financial crash.

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🚨🚨🚨 NEW: Dundee-born actor Brian Cox, famous for his role as Logan Roy in the hit drama Succession, is coming back to his hometown to star in a new play at the place where his career kicked off - at the Dundee Rep!

❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤩 FUN FACT: The statue of Robert Burns by John Steell in Dundee's Albert Square is the only one of its kind in Scotland. There are three other statues of the kind in the world, in London, New York and Dunedin.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎉❤️ Our city has contributed so much to the world. Saying that Dundee is just like any other city is an understatement! We have had several knockbacks over the years but we've come out stronger!

📍 Scotland's First City
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❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥮 Pehs! Glorious pehs! A new wee tradition I love to do on Dundee Day is get a peh from Clark’s, one of the most popular bakeries in the city! We are so lucky to have an iconic institution on our doorsteps! So tasty!

Update to the West End Syke balloons
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Meet Kacey: A proud Dundonian who joins Dundee Culture | Dundee Culture Hi everyone! I’d like to introduce myself, I’m Kacey and I am currently in my final year of university studying Journalism, Media & Communications at the University of Strathclyde. As a proud Dundonia...

Her passion for storytelling and local culture is a perfect fit for Dundee Culture’s mission of celebrating all things Dundee.

Stay tuned for her contributions in the coming weeks! Welcome to the team Kacey!

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🚨🚨🚨 MEET KACEY!

I’m absolutely excited to welcome Kacey Thomson to the Dundee Culture team for work experience!

Kacey, from Dundee, who is studying journalism at the University of Strathclyde, will be creating engaging feature content and social media posts during her time with Dundee Culture.

Dundee ain't no ordinary city! We’re exceptional, groundbreaking and all round - pure teckle!

So, treat yersel tae a peh - and celebrate hame!

Happy Dundee Day!

Dundonians, we are pretty amazing. Despite our city continuing to face many challenges, it goes back to the saying that was coined 60 years ago, it is a place of new hope.

When we face challenges, we confront them, and if we get knocked down, we get back up and come out stronger!

It is a place of new hope. It is a city that gets knocked down but gets back up on its feet again. From the bustling jute industry to becoming a global tech hub, Dundee has went through an extraordinary change

Dundee has made a HUGE impact on the world, the things we have invented, pioneered and developed is nothing short of incredible! The incandescent light bulb, statistical graphs, the postage stamp, aspirin, aviation to name just a few!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️😍 HAPPY DUNDEE DAY! 136 years ago, Dundee became the first city in Scotland to be given city status. Queen Victoria signed a charter dated 26 January 1889 officially declaring it as one! #DundeeDay

🎆🎉🎇🥳🎆🎉 HAPPY NEW YEAR DUNDEE! WISHING YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY AND HEALTHY 2025!

📍 Bonnie Dundee
📸 Craig Doogan Photography & Digital Art

❤️🥰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Next year marks 200 years since Bonnie Dundee was first written by Walter Scott. The poem, which was later adapted into a song was written in honour of John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, and equally refers to our bonnie town of Dundee! And it certainly is a bonnie wee place!

📸 BDP, Nicoll Russell Studios, Orbit Communications, LJRH Architects, Wilson Paul

❤️❤️❤️ There is really a lot of newly revealed exciting projects going on at the moment! For a while, I did think progress on Dundee’s transformation had stagnated, but to have all of this revealed in the past two months is brilliant! It really is an exciting time for Dundee!

It has helped unemployed individuals gain access to work, helped raise awareness for the Dundee Bairns charity, and ticket prices have been reduced for families who might struggle with accessibility too!

This is the news we want to hear!

❤️🎄🥹 Absolutely wholesome to hear that Dundee’s Christmas Village has delievered strong community benefits since opening last month.

EXCLUSIVE: Hopes Caird Park courses could be saved under 'exciting' plans being drawn up by golf firm Proposals include the redevelopment of both courses, a driving range and a new clubhouse.

The project is being driven by an organisation that already operates and manages golf courses around the world.

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🚨🚨🚨 MAJOR NEWS: Caird Park golf course could be saved as new plans have reportedly been drawn up to save the venue from closure, the Courier has reported.

Proposals include the redevelopment of both courses, a driving range alongside a new clubhouse.

A small reminder of how our city has always had its own magical role in Christmas cheer!

Why? To visit Cox’s Stack—the towering symbol of Camperdown Works, once the world’s largest jute mill!

Santa knew Dundee was the go-to place for the finest jute sacks, perfect for carrying gifts made in his North Pole workshop.