Exhibit date revealed

Dundee City Council’s director of city development Mike Galloway revealed to the Tele that objects and artefacts for exhibitions to be held at the museum will be arriving in January.

He was speaking at a special viewing of the museum yesterday, which was attended by the V&A’s architect Kengo Kuma.

Mr Galloway said: “The museum is on schedule and is due to be released in January for the internal fitments to be installed.

“We are not yet ready to reveal the actual opening date but we are confident the museum will be open in plenty time to test the reaction to it from visitors to Dundee during next summer.

“Prior to that there is a lot of work to do.”

He added: “We will need to spend four to six months preparing the

“During that time, objects will be arriving in back rooms at the museum ready to be put in place for the opening.”

Mr Galloway said there will be four main exhibition galleries at the museum.

He said: “Two of these will be for temporary, travelling exhibitions and the other two will house a history of Scottish design.”

Mr Galloway said he remained confident that the museum will attract hundreds of thousands of visitors.

He said: “Initially we spoke about 500,000 a year coming to the museum.

“We have pushed that back to a more realistic figure of 350,000 but personally I am hoping to exceed that.”

City council leader John Alexander said the museum would be very important for future generations of Dundonians.

He said: “My vision is not just that this will put Dundee on the map but that all maps will lead to Dundee as a result of the V&A.”

THE first exhibits to go on show at Dundee’s V&A museum are due to arrive on site early next year.

The new V&A museum on Dundee’s Waterfront is nearing completion, and arrangements are now being made for the arrival of the first exhibits.

Dundee City Council’s director of city development Mike Galloway.