Dundee: from jam to video games

Former capital of jute, marmalade and journalism, Dundee has become in recent decades a centre of video game development, including the renowned Grand Theft Auto.

The centre, from marmalade tradition to modern video game studios, is easily explored on foot along the River Tay.

The V&A Dundee, a design museum with a sculptural facade reminiscent of Scottish cliffs, remains the first design museum dedicated outside London in the United Kingdom.

A short walk away, the RRS Discovery, the ship used by explorer Robert Falcon Scott for his Antarctic expedition of 1901, is moored as a floating museum on the Tay riverfront.

Continuing on, one visits the McManus Galleries, a Victorian museum that tells the industrial history of the city linked to jute processing.

In the evening, the district that housed the local video game development studios recalls how Dundee became a hub of the British video game industry.

The first chapter of the Grand Theft Auto series was developed right in Dundee in the nineties, launching a local tradition in video game development that continues to this day with several active studios in the city.

The Discovery was built specifically in Dundee to withstand Antarctic ice, drawing on the city's shipbuilding expertise developed through the construction of whaling ships for the Arctic.