Scotland’s first design museum is the global home of our country’s design heritage. The museum gives an insight into over 500 years of brilliance, ingenuity and achievement in Scottish creativity as well as the best examples of design from around the world. Unsurprisingly, people from around Scotland - and further afield - have been flocking to the new attraction. The museum's target of 500,000 visitors in the first year was amazingly smashed in only six months!

The opening of V&A Dundee has also had a knock-on effect on other Dundee cultural attractions. Figures released by the Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions (ASVA), showed a 42% increase in the number of visitors to Discovery Point and a 21% increase at Verdant Works. Other attractions in the region, including Arbroath Abbey and Barry Mill also recorded significant increases.

There's a reason that Dundee is recognised as the UK's first UNESCO City of Design. Throughout the centuries, it has seamlessly transitioned from one industry to the next, continually keeping its finger on the pulse of what's happening. From being the world's largest exporter of jute fabric during the 1800s, to being the home of Grand Theft Auto, one of the world's biggest video games, and everything in between - Dundee has always been ready to embrace new ideas. 

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