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Four Brothers' Heroic WWII Medals on Display at The McManus in Dundee Ahead of VE Day
Ahead of the 80th Anniversary of VE Day, four Military Crosses from the same family have gone on display at The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum. The medals tell the extraordinary story of wartime heroics of four brothers.
The brothers from the Rae family survived some of the fiercest fighting of the Second World War and returned to their hometown of Dundee with remarkable battlefield achievements and recognition for gallantry in the field. Indeed one brother, even received an additional bar on his military cross for his courageous actions.
Stanley, Ian, Douglas and Bruce Rae were the sons of Stephen and Agnes Rae of Encliffe, Albany Road, West Ferry. Their father was a partner in McIntyre & Rae, a well-known accountancy firm which he had founded in 1910 in…
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Scottish art takes centre stage in Dundee
The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum is staging two exhibitions on Scottish painting which feature artworks from the City’s nationally significant Fine Art collection from Friday November 4, 2016.
‘Sense of Place’ focuses on landscapes by Scottish artists, starting with the pioneering work of the Glasgow Boys. Inspired by French practice, ‘The Boys’ moved out of the studio to paint out-of-doors, en plein air. With this new spirit of naturalism, artists were able to capture the effects of light and the weather, breathing new life into Scottish art.
Throughout the twentieth century the strong tradition of landscape painting continued with the vibrant and colourful paintings by the Scottish Colourists. The inter-war years are represented by the intellectual and…
Appeal to find former Dundee Museum Club members
Curators at The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum have launched an appeal to find members of the Dundee Museum Club from the 1960s and 70s. The club worked on a model of Finavon hillfort in 1970 that is now featuring in the current ‘Reflections on Celts’ exhibition and staff are keen to get in touch with former members.
The scaled down model followed a 1930s excavation report that showed the original Finavon hillfort in Angus had walls over six metres thick and between three and five metres high. The fort has been dated to the 7th century BC. It was excavated by Professor V. Gordon Childe in the 1930s. In the interior of the fort he discovered a well, a row of dwellings with hearths and evidence of spinning, pottery making and metal working. At the end of its life the…
Oor Wullie statue has new home at The McManus
Today, the aptly named ‘Oor Artifacts’ Wullie – part of the hugely successful bucket trail - was welcomed to his new home at The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum. Leisure & Culture Dundee were successful in their bid for the statue at the recent auction for the ARCHIE Foundation and decided to put him on show in one of the city’s favourite buildings for everyone to enjoy.
‘Oor Artifacts’ was designed by Andy MacVicar who is a Scottish sculptor with a Masters of Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. A traditionally trained bronze foundryman for a leading Scottish fine art foundry, his work has been exhibited internationally.
The statue was inspired by an imagined Oor Wullie comic strip, in which Oor Wullie visits the renovated…
DJCAD Scrub Hub to be remembered in McManus collection
A set of scrubs sewn by a University of Dundee volunteer responding to the need for medical clothing in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic have been donated to The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery & Museum. The scrubs, sewn by Jane Keith, founder of the DJCAD Scrub Hub, will be placed in the permanent collection at The McManus, serving as a reminder of the collaborative effort of University staff and the local community during the pandemic.
Last year, when Covid-19 first took hold on the city, NHS Tayside asked all patient-facing staff who previously wore their own clothes, such as doctors and consultants, to wear scrubs in order to minimise the increased risk of infection and cross-contamination. The additional demand for scrubs was mirrored across the UK, leading to a…
A British Museum Spotlight Loan Troy: beauty and heroism
The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery & Museum
Thursday 19 May - Sunday 14 August 2022
A British Museum Spotlight Loan Troy: beauty and heroism is going on show at The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery & Museum from Thursday 19 May until Sunday 14 August 2022. Key objects from the Troy: myth and reality exhibition will be accessible to audiences as part of the British Museum's National Programmes. Complementing objects from the British Museum will be loans of casts of sculpture from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design and the University of Dundee. Objects from Dundee City Council's own collections will also be featured.
Helen and Achilles are central characters in the story of the Trojan War. Helen is the most beautiful woman in the world. Her…
