Cast your vote now for Dundee Museum of Transport

Voting on the RBS CommunityForce website (external link) is now open until 23 October 2011. Please tell as many people as you can and make sure they place their vote for us!

If we receive enough support the Museum could receive a grant of £6000 so every vote counts.

  

Get ready to vote for Dundee Museum of Transport

Dundee Museum of Transport has registered with RBS CommunityForce. This is an initiative which sees them working with local communities to support the people, projects and charities making a real difference where you live.

If we receive enough support the Museum could receive a grant of £6000. Part of the grant would go towards our feasibility study which relates directly to the regeneration and re-use of the former Maryfield tram depot. It would also help contribute towards equipment for a mobile exhibition stand for educational purposes within the community. In addition the grant would help with the production of brochures and stationery to assist Dundee Museum of Transport to actively seek volunteers and raise awareness of the project.

Voting starts on Monday 26 September 2011 so please tell as many people as you can and make sure they place their vote for us!

Click here to view our RBS CommunityForce page (external link).

  

The Dundee Channel interviews Museum chairman

Online news and entertainment TV station The Dundee Channel (external link) interviewed Dundee Museum of Transport chairman Jimmy McDonell at the Baxter Park Gala Day on 7 August 2010.

We are grateful to the Channel for providing us with a copy of this interview for our website and YouTube channel (external link).

  

New video slideshows added to Museum website

Two new slideshow videos have now been added to the Gallery section of the website. They can be accessed by clicking here or selecting 'Videos' from the 'Gallery' menu.

The first video shows a compilation of a number of photographs and other items that were collected for our successful exhibition held in Dundee's Central Library in October/ November 2010. The first part of the slideshow is mainly dedicated to Ambulances but a number of other vehicles are also featured. Later on there are some railway photographs, views of Old Dundee and very sad views of the destruction of Dundee's trams.

The second video slideshow shows all one hundred photographs that were gathered together to chart the development of Dundee's Buses though the 20th Century - from Scotland's first trolley bus service in 1912 through to the takeover by National Express in 1997.