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Ocean Liners: Speed and Style
Discover how ocean liners became one of the most powerful and admired symbols of 20th century modernity.
Ocean Liners: Speed and Style is our first in a series of major changing exhibitions showing the very best of international design.
From Brunel’s 1859 steamship, the Great Eastern, to the launch of the QE2 in 1969, Ocean Liners is the first exhibition to fully explore the design and cultural impact of ocean liners on an international scale, focussing on their promotion, engineering, interior design, as well as the lifestyle on board.
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Supported by players of People's Postcode Lottery. Awarding funds from Postcode Culture Trust
Exhibition Highlights
Detail of 'Riveters' from Stanley Spencer's 'Shipbuilding on the Clyde' series, 1941.
Two-piece bathing suit made of yellow wool jersey by Finnigans Ltd., London 1937-39.
Children's chair from the first-class playroom on the Normandie c. 1934.
Poster of the Empress of Britain for Canadian Pacific Railways, J.R. Tooby, London, 1920 – 31.
Model of a quadruple expansion tandem engine. Designed by Walter Brock and made by David Carlaw for William Denny Brothers, Dumbarton, Scotland, 1887.
Normandie in New York, 1935-39.
Silk georgette and glass beaded ‘Salambo’ dress, previously owned by Miss Emilie Grigsby, 1925.
Dining in front of the 'Decorative wall panel, SS United States by Charles Tissot.
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Talk
Free
Educators Familiarisation: Ocean Liners
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Workshop
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Ocean Liners Design
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Nautical but Nice
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Ocean Liners: Speed and Style on Screen
Our first collaboration with Dundee Contemporary Arts is a cinematic celebration of Ocean Liners