Dundee Nights

Dundee Nights - Offer an object

We are planning our next exhibition to celebrate our city, and this time we’re all going getting together for a proper Dundee night out.

We’re telling the story of Dundee after dark, from the days of music halls right through to modern times, covering cinema, dance halls, the heyday of the Caird Hall and more.

We’re looking for objects to help us tell the stories of the city’s nightlife.

Ticket stubs, programmes, a drum stick or plectrum, t-shirts, a jelly baby from the Beatles gig, we’re open to all ideas. Send us a message using this form and we’ll get in touch. We won’t be able to show everything, but we hope to include enough to represent the different voices of the people of the city.

This form will be open for 4 weeks from 12th June to 10th July 2026. We will then assess what we have and contact you.

Please do not post or bring objects to the museum without arranging with us first. Every offer will be carefully considered, but we will not be able to display everything that is offered to us, so please do not be offended if your object is not selected for display. We cannot accept material with specific conditions attached or where current ownership might be disputed.

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About your object
Please provide as much detail as possible about your object. This will help our curatorial team to make a selection. 
About your object
Please provide as much detail as you can, including details of the gig or event, if applicable.
Share any information you have, for instance about past owners or how you came to own it.
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About you
About the possible loan

Can you confirm you are the owner of the object(s) and you are able to lend them to Leisure & Culture Dundee (The McManus)?


Please confirm the location of the object(s)

If selected for the exhibition, the object(s) will be required ahead of the exhibition, with a likely loan period of August 2026 until the end of September 2027. Would the object(s) be available for the full time period?

All information provided will only be used by Leisure & Culture Dundee for the purposes of managing loan information within our collections management framework. Leisure & Culture Dundee will not share this information with any other party unless explicitly agreed with you in advance. Information will be retained in perpetuity to manage the collections. All data provided on this form will be processed, stored and destroyed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For full information on Leisure & Culture Dundee’s privacy policy, including guidance on retention periods please see our website for further details at www.leisureandculturedundee.com/privacy-policy