Penguin HopPublic artwork around Dundee. All outdoors, so free to visit any time, but wrap up warm.
Four painted penguin sculptures at Discovery Point
From the wild west, Dan strides across City Square
A dragon that has landed in Dundee city
The life-size framework of a whale. As you walk below it listen to the sounds of the ocean.
A cheeky monkey has jumbled up the words of an information board.
Commemorating the real life incident of an escaped polar bear rampaging in 1878. Thankfully this is smaller and not as scary.
Several penguins march along the church wall. Are they having fun or do they have somewhere to be?
Painted in 1983 on the side of a building, it depicts life in the city.
A frigate ship built in 1824 and used in Dundee for training the Royal Naval Reserves. Watch your head as the ceilings are low and the floors uneven. It’s the most intact wooden ship of it’s time and it’s history needs preserving.
Entrance tickets available at hmsunicorn.org.uk but you can view the outside and unicorn figurehead while walking along city quay.
Below the Tay Rail Bridge and without explanation an official looking sign is present, is the wording deep or a parody of current phrasology. Artist David McCulloch creates a new sign about once a month, so it’s worth checking each time you are near.
These are not anagrams, despite my attempts to unscramble them.
As you walk along the riverside path, read extracts from “The Railway Bridge Of The Silvery Tay” a poem by William Topaz McGonagall written in 1878.
With your numerous arches and pillars in so grand array
And your central girders, which seem to the eye
To be almost towering to the sky.