Adam Ageli
09.03.2025
Enjoyed it! Not sure why people say it's empty, there were 3 different interesting exhibits to see and we went when there wasn't a main event on either. I liked the Dundee tapestries!
Daniel Drozdzewski
06.03.2025
Absolutely amazing institution. Lots to do and engage with accross the ages. Went with kids and we easily stayed 3h with some light refreshments in a lovely cafe.
Jeff Hartley
05.03.2025
Disappointing. The ground floor was closed off for filming. One gallery devoted to environmental art, where they had to explain what we were looking at. Another gallery devoted to local embroidery (fair enough). The semi permanent V&A displays are disjointed (they would call it eclectic) and labelling of exhibits is very poor. Such a waste of an outstanding space.
Emma Hunter
05.03.2025
Sparce, not much to see
Merritt G
02.03.2025
The V&A Dundee is a nice little museum. It's a pretty small collection but the building is really open and spacious. The cafe is very good and the shop was quite nice too. It's a nice place to spend a couple of hours.
Heather Robertson
23.02.2025
Always amazing. So many free exhibitions and a great cafe abd shop. Lockers to leave your property, educational rooms full of skills for kids to try. Tapestry panels are superb! Well worth a visit!!
Ailean Dunsmuir
11.03.2020
New display of tapestries is great.
Much better to have a large area to wander round and enjoy the fantastic workmanship.
Renee Mackintosh tea room would benefit from at least one table and chairs. Set out as in original tea room.
Ewan Walker
22.02.2025
An amazing building but like others I feel there could be more on display. We saw the 'Dundee Tapestries', 'NHS Hopes' uniform redesign and 'Ravenscraig Regeneration' exhibits, which were both very interesting. Maybe I don't get the large open space of galleries. 🤷🏻♂️ We had drinks and cakes at the cafe, very tasty 😋 worth a look in in to decide for yourself... 😎
morrison y
21.02.2025
Considering how much stuff the V&A has in storage, why is this an almost empty museum? It's an absolute disgrace. Very poor show from V&A London. No wonder there was no one visiting. Best thing about it was the guy explaining the Tea Room installation to us. He was excellent. There is also a very sad "best of Scottish Designers" bit. Really? The V&A Clothworkers Centre (more storage) in London is rammed to the gills with stuff, including garments designed by people from Scotland that never see the light of day, so why do you have so little? Likewise the Prints and Drawings room collection. You have thousands of objects of highly questionable provenance, a lot of which have been taken as the spoils of Empire, in storage. If you are determined NOT to give them back, why don't you get THESE out of storage and put them in your V&A outposts in V&A East and V&A Dundee?
Also, why don't your flagship exhibitions make it to Dundee either?
This is clearly a vanity project with a new piece of architecture to make this bit of town look better. It's turned out to be a hollow, soulless folly. Such a wasted opportunity for learning and enrichment missed.
Stacey Hickman
20.02.2025
I just went to the free section upstairs, I really enjoyed it, I only had an hour, but I could have spent all afternoon there! The shop had lots of lovely products (just ashame it was so pricy, 1 tea towel was about £15, and a notebook I liked was about £40 odd)
R P
16.02.2025
Interesting exhibition space, great views over the Tay. Lots of hands-on things to do with little ones too.
Jackie Shanley
14.02.2025
Beautiful building, had afternoon tea and saw the tapestry exhibition.
Neah McGregor
10.02.2025
As a graphic designer I was excited to see the design museum....it was very underwhelming. Really only 3 exhibits that were interesting but the museum was so big that the small exhibits seemed meager. The most interesting part was the complete refurbishment and instalation of one of MacKintosh's tea rooms that you could then walk in and see.
Paulius Jak
09.02.2025
Disappointing.
