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In 2014, UNESCO officially named Dundee as one of its “Creative Cities of Design”, placing it in the same bracket as the likes of Shanghai, Montreal and Berlin. That reputation rests in part on successes in textiles, gaming and graphic design, as well as 150-year-old art gallery, The McManus, and the Duncan Jordanstone College of Art and Design, one of the finest in Britain.

The city will get a further boost in September with the opening of the V&A’s first outpost outside of London. Designed by

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