V&A Dundee

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I made it around the V&A Dundee fine. Design can be interesting but I usually judge most of what I find in fancy art museums to be pretentious rubbish; I often prefer the less-highlighted or -promoted stuff one sees up around university art departments. In this case among the exhibits there was more interesting than not, at least for me, together with a decent amount of explanatory text, so it easily surpassed my low expectations.

I have mixed feelings about the building itself. Outside it's uglier than inside. They occupy a lot of prime real estate from which they could have gotten rather more useful square footage while leaving it still fairly light and airy: for all that space I think it could have been better used. I don't wholly hate it though: among other things there are plenty of friendly assistants around, an abundance of bench space for resting and, with the adjacent firth, there is a nice balcony facing it and through some of the windows one may look down onto the water's surface.