V&A Dundee and Cultural Institutions in Dundee: The Role of Museums in Culture-Led Regeneration

This paper will examine V&A Dundee and the role of museum in culture-led regeneration a post-industrial city. It set context existing cultural institutions significance previous work undertaken by moving towards regeneration, showing that this has been progress for over forty years. is promoted as centrepiece city’s one-billion-pound waterfront prompting comparisons to ‘Bilbao effect’, subsequent examples. analyse main objectives alongside its perception driver but also illustrating limitations regeneration.