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V&A Dundee Membership enables you to visit our changing exhibitions time and time again
Explore the everyday relevance of design and how it improves our lives, experience the processes that underpin it and discover little-known stories of Scottish design with international impact.
Ranging from architecture to fashion, healthcare to furniture, and engineering to video game design, around 300 exhibits have been drawn from the V&A’s world-famous collections of art, design and performance, as well as museums, private collections and designers across Scotland and the world.
Curated in collaboration with V&A South Kensington, our Scottish Design Galleries explore Scotland’s design landscape, historically and today.
This pistol is signed by the gunsmith Alexander Campbell and was made between 1740 and 1760.
This pair of classic Hunter ‘wellies’ dates from the 1980s, when the utilitarian boots became associated with the fashionable urban middle and upper classes.
Linoleum elephant sculpture designed by Eduardo Paolozzi as a promotional case for a 1972-73 catalogue from Michael Nairn & Co.
With more than 2,500 cushion-shaped, single-cut, circular-cut and rose-cut diamonds, this tiara features a pair of ‘en tremblant’ wings is constructed using wire-coiled springs so that they move slightly when worn.
This lavish chair was designed by artist Robert Home, the son of an eminent Berwickshire army surgeon.
This bookcase was designed by George Logan to be exhibited at the 1901 Glasgow Exhibition.
snap40 is a wearable device that uses artificial intelligence to monitor a hospital patient’s vital signs, alerting physicians and nurses via wireless technology if there is a problem.
This dress was part of Holly Fulton’s Autumn/Winter 2011 collection.
V&A Dundee Membership enables you to visit our changing exhibitions time and time again
Taking a closer look at the paisley pattern
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Explore the feelings evoked my Mackintosh's stunning interior
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Illustrator Steven Learmonth brings our museum to life for Halloween 🎃
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How and why we are decolonising our museum
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Our Scottish Design Galleries explore Scotland’s unique design landscape, both historically and today
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Bringing a major lost work by Scotland’s most famous designer back to life
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Scotland’s design history is underpinned by the exploitation of enslaved and colonised people around the world
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Creatively exploring museum collections through the written word
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How the kaleidoscope can offer a new creative perspective
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This true icon of design and engineering is dizzyingly iconic
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Discover an oversized jug filled with drama, movement and extravagance
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Kitchen gadgets aren't just for the back of your cupboard
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Innovative and sustainable design for the home as well as the museum
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Unlikely personal parallels found in an architectural plan from 1913
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The impact even an unassuming object in the museum can have
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How Star Wars and the cutting room of the Citizens Theatre are connected by two costume designers
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How game development software removes some of the barriers to making videogames
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The sibling harmony behind the empowering fashion brand
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The Dounreay Nuclear Reactor was the world’s first fast nuclear reactor to supply energy to a national grid
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Work that makes you a household name isn't always safe from criticism
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Designer Maeve Redmond explores how her compelling graphic design piece came together
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The pioneering technological innovation of Pringle
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How costumes in a cinematic universe were inspired by vintage Paisley
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The Racerback swimsuit made quite a splash in the 1920s
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Embroiderers stitched unique designs on a microscopic scale
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One of the the most successful video games in the world was born in Dundee
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Inspired by Scottish inventor Sir David Brewster’s kaleidoscope, as found in the Scottish Design Galleries, Lesley Barnes has designed a new pattern especially for V&A Dundee.
£12 - Buy nowThroughout the modern age, Scotland has repeatedly revealed itself to be a pioneering leader in design innovation on the international stage. The Story of Scottish Design showcases these significant achievements.
£24.95 - Buy nowThese magnets are a colourful celebration of iconic design stories such as that of the Orkney chair, Hunter wellies and the Fair Isle jumper, all of which are showcased in the Scottish Design Gallery.
£2 - Buy nowExplore the museum’s remarkable architecture and Scottish Design highlights at your own pace.