Tickets for inaugural exhibition at the V&A Dundee now available to buy

MUSEUM: Ocean Liners display will show what life was like on 20th Century ‘floating palace’

Tickets for the opening exhibition at the V&A Dundee have gone on sale.

Ocean Liners: Speed and Style will give visitors the chance to experience life on a 20th Century “floating palace” and was announced at the start of this year as the inaugural show.

Tickets for the opening weekend – September 15 and 16 – are not yet available, but those for Monday September 17 are selling very quickly.

The museum opening will be accompanied by a two-day music and arts event, the 3-D Festival, details of which are still to be unveiled.

Tickets for the exhibit were offered online yesterday morning on the V&A Dundee website, costing £9 for adults and starting at £7 for concessions – students, adults over 60 and Young Scot Card holders.

Entering the V&A building will be free, but it will cost money to gain entry to specific exhibitions.

The Ocean Liners display will run from the museum’s opening until February 2019. V&A bosses said tickets for the opening weekend will go on sale closer to the date.

Sophie McKinlay, V&A Dundee’s director of programme, said: “We are delighted to release the first tickets for our inaugural exhibition, Ocean Liners: Speed and Style.

“Organised by the V&A in London and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, the remarkable show will re-imagine the golden age of ocean travel and showcase more than 250 objects from public and private collections around the world.

“Ocean Liners: Speed and Style will be the first major V&A show exhibited in Scotland and the first of many internationally significant and ambitious exhibitions at V&A Dundee.

“We look forward to welcoming visitors to the new museum when it opens on Saturday September 15.”

After years of waiting, the eagerly-anticipated opening of Dundee’s V&A museum is just four months away. Excitement has been building steadily, something organisers were able to tap into when tickets went on sale yesterday.

The museum represents the flagship attraction on the revamped waterfront – it promises to put Dundee in a whole new sphere as a tourist attraction.

Picture: Ben Stevens. One of the exhibits that will feature in the Ocean Liners: Speed and Style show.