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ダンディー(英語: Dundee 、スコットランド・ゲール語: Dùn Dè [ˈt̪uːn tʲeː]、スコットランド語: Dundee、)は、正式名をダンディー・シティ と呼ぶスコットランドで人口4番目、イギリス全体で人口51番目の都市で、スコットランドに32ある地方行政区画である「カウンシル・エリア」の1つである。北海に面するテイ湾の北岸に位置する。 ダンディーには、中石器時代から人が継続的に居住してきた痕跡がある。中世に自由都市として発展し、19世紀に主にジュート産業によって急速に発展した。このことと、他のダンディーの主要産業から、ダンディーの通り名である「ジャム・ジュート・ジャーナリズム」 が生まれた。 2006年半ばで、ダンディーの人口は141,930人、都市圏人口は159,522人と見積もられている。1971年の国勢調査の時点で、ダンディーの人口は182,204人の最高に達しているが、その後の転出により減少している。 こんにち、ダンディーは「一つの都市、多くの発見」 というキャッチフレーズで宣伝している。これは、ダンディーの科学活動の歴史と、ロバート・スコットの南極探検に使われた調査船ディスカバリー号がダンディーで建造され、今も市の港で保存されていることを記念するものである。生物医学産業や技術産業は1980年代から発展し始め、現在ではイギリスにおけるデジタルエンターテイメント産業の10%を占めるに至っている。ダンディーには、ダンディー大学、アバーテイ大学の2つの大学がある。2014年には、医学研究や漫画、ビデオゲームといった分野での多様な貢献を理由として、イギリスで初めて国際連合教育科学文化機関 のデザイン都市に認定された。 ダンディーの特徴的なところとして、2つのプロサッカーチーム、ダンディー・ユナイテッドFCとダンディーFCがあり、お互いに隣り合ったスタジアムを本拠地としているというところがある。 伝統的な産業の衰退とともに、ダンディーは文化センターとして再発展しようとする計画を採用した。この計画を追求して、10億ポンドをかけてウォーターフロントと都心を再生し再連結するマスタープランが2001年に始まり、30年ほどの期間をかけて完成させる予定となっている。ヴィクトリア&アルバート博物館のロンドン以外では初めてとなる支館、V&Aダンディーは、このウォーターフロントプロジェクトの中心となっている。 近年、ダンディーの国際的注目度が上がっている。雑誌のGQは2015年にダンディーを「イギリスでもっともクールな小都市」に選び、ウォール・ストリート・ジャーナルは2018年に「世界中で最もホットな旅行先」の第5位にダンディーを選んだ。

McManus Gallery

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The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum is a Gothic Revival-style building, located in the centre of Dundee, Scotland. The building houses a museum and art gallery with a collection of fine and decorative art as well as a natural history collection. It is protected as a Category A listed building.The concept for the building was originally commissioned as a memorial to Prince Albert and intended to contain room for lectures, museum, picture gallery and a reference library for students by the British Association for the Advancement of Science. It was agreed that the funding for the building should be provided by the inhabitants of Dundee. Although the city could not afford such a lavish memorial outright, it did contribute £300. A guaranteed fund of £4,205 15/- from 168 contributors was collected which included a munificent gift from the Baxter family which totalled £420.The building was designed by the architect George Gilbert Scott, who was an expert for the restoration of mediaeval churches and advocate of the Gothic architectural style. He intended to design a large tower like in his previous work at St. Nikolai, Hamburg. The foundations were situated in a small wetland called Quaw Bog at the confluence of the Scourin Burn and Friar Burn, which has since been drained. This meant that the area under the building site was underpinned by large wood beams. However, when construction began in 1865, the ground proved too unstable to support the larger tower that he envisaged. The building was opened as the Albert Institute in 1867. Two further sections, which extended the building by four art galleries and four museum galleries, were added by 1889. The central section was designed to Scott's intention by David MacKenzie, with the Eastern Galleries by William Alexander. The contents of the Watt Institute, founded in 1848, were incorporated into the collection before the opening of the civic museum and art gallery in 1873. Between 1873 and 1949, the buildings were administrated as part of public library service. From 1959, the city corporation took over the running of the administration. Ironically, following a later refurbishment the building now commemorates the Lord Provost Maurice McManus. Initially retitled McManus Galleries, after refurbishment in 2010, it is now formally known as The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum. In 1976, cracks were discovered in south-east corner of the building. The subsequent survey found that the building was partially subsiding. During 1979, remedial measures involved placing load-bearing concrete piles and cross-beams positioned to replace rotted timbers.The building was closed to the public on 24 October 2005 for a £7.8million redevelopment by Page\Park Architects and was reopened to the public on 28 February 2010. Currently, much of the McManus collection, which includes works by Dundee-based artists James McIntosh Patrick and Alberto Morrocco, is located at the former Carnegie Library on Barrack Street. The collection includes three paintings by Thomas Musgrave Joy which celebrate Grace Darling's rescue of passengers on the paddlesteamer Forfarshire.

Verdant Works

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Verdant Works, also known as Scotland's Jute Museum, is a former jute mill in the Blackness area of Dundee, Scotland. It was purchased in 1991 by the Dundee Heritage Trust. The trust restored the buildings, which were officially opened by Prince Charles in 1996, as a museum dedicated to the textile industry, an industry that once dominated the city's economy.

Maggie's Centres

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Maggie's centres are a network of drop-in centres across the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, which aim to help anyone who has been affected by cancer. They are not intended as a replacement for conventional cancer therapy, but as a caring environment that can provide support, information and practical advice. They are located near, but are detached from, existing NHS hospitals. The Scottish registered charity which promotes, builds and runs the centres is formally named the Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Trust, but refers to itself simply as Maggie's. It was founded by and named after the late Maggie Keswick Jencks, who died of cancer in 1995. Like her husband, architectural writer and critic Charles Jencks, she believed in the ability of buildings to uplift people. The buildings that house the centres have been designed by leading architects, including Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid and Richard Rogers.Patrons of the charity include Frank Gehry, Jon Snow, Kirsty Wark, and Sarah Brown, wife of former British prime minister Gordon Brown. The charity's chief executive officer is Laura Lee, who was Maggie's cancer nurse. The President of the charity is Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.

University of Dundee

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The University of Dundee is a public research university in Dundee, Scotland. It is a red brick university, founded as a university college in 1881 with a donation from the prominent Baxter family of textile manufacturers. The institution was, for most of its early existence, a constituent college of the University of St Andrews alongside United College and St Mary's College located in the town of St Andrews itself. Following significant expansion, the University of Dundee gained independent university status by royal charter in 1967 while retaining much of its ancient heritage and governance structure. The main campus of the university is located in Dundee's West End which contains many of the university's teaching and research facilities; the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee Law School and the Dundee Dental Hospital and School. The university has additional facilities at Ninewells Hospital, containing its school of medicine; Perth Royal Infirmary, which houses a clinical research centre; and in Kirkcaldy, Fife, containing part of its school of nursing and health sciences. The annual income of the institution for 2018–19 was £256.4 million of which £70 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £263.1 million.