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Dundee Contemporary Arts

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4.16

6 reviews

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Dundee Contemporary Arts is an internationally renowned centre for contemporary arts that enables audiences, artists and participants to see, experience and create through our four programme areas: exhibitions, cinema, print and learning. We present a programme of contemporary visual art and culture. Established as a charity in 1996, our building opened to the public in 1999 and forms a social and cultural hub for the city of Dundee. Supported by Dundee City Council and Creative Scotland, our building contains galleries for the presentation of contemporary art, cinemas, a print studio and a variety of education spaces.

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Overall rating

4.16

(6 reviews)

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Access (avg.)

4.41

Parking (avg.)

3.25

Toilets (avg.)

1.58

Staff (avg.)

4.5

derekinstandrews

Jan 2025

A Complete Unknown now better known

Went to see the new Bob Dylan biopic after booking online and getting excellent advice from the DCA website about what to expect.

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fencingfilly

Jul 2021

4.5

Long time awaited trip to the cinema

It’s often so difficult to go to the cinema when you are disabled as you end up in the front of the cinema and end up with a nasty crick in your neck. This was not true at the DCA. I went with some friends to the cinema today and they could not work out how you prebooked the wheelchair seats. (Having looked since it’s not actually hard you just have to email or Phone and ask). When we got there the staff were really helpful and said we could chose whether to sit up in the wheelchair seats or if we preferred we could sit in our booked seats and it’s fully ramped to the front at the right hand sided. We chose to sit in our booked seats as it is currently quiet with the Covid spacing of seats so we knew we wouldn’t be stopping anyone getting to their seats further in the row. Maybe not an option if it was busy or if you struggle to transfer but worked for us and the seats were really comfy. The staff were all really helpful and nice to be able to sit in the cinema seats as there was ramped access.

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girlonwheels

Aug 2017

Good, but could be better.

Lift very small, disabled toilet on entrance inaccessible for wheelchairs and disabled toilet on restaurant/cinema level doubles as a baby changing so often engaged. Good space for wheelchairs at back of cinema beside seats for two people.

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We’re listed as a venue on WelcoMe, an online disability aware customer-service tool to support accessible customer experiences. Our box office also uses Contact Scotland BSL, allowing d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing customers to contact us by calling an online sign language interpreter who will relay the call. There are two designated disabled parking spaces in the car park at the back of the building where you can find level access to DCA lift. Our lift has voice announcement and tactile buttons. Our lift provides access to all public areas of the building. Once inside the building our reception/box office desk is at a suitable height for wheelchair users and guide dogs and assistance dogs are welcome. We have used contrasting colours throughout the building to assist those with visual impairment. We have one accessible unisex toilet, close to the galleries on the ground floor, with an emergency pull cord and one accessible unisex toilet, close to the cinema entrance on the lower ground floor, with emergency pull cord. In our cinemas we offer captioned screenings and audio description on selected films. We also offer Relaxed screenings on selected films, which are screened in our smaller cinema, without advertising and with consistent lighting and lower sound levels throughout. The cinemas are fully ramped with wheelchair areas and removable seats. Wheelchairs are also available on request (please let us know your requirements in advance). A large print version of our weekly cinema guide is available from Box Office, and an audio described version of our Cinema Brochure is available on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/dcadundee). Our galleries are accessible by lift from the back entrance and there is level access to our galleries from the front entrance. Folding stools are available to take into the galleries. Printed exhibition notes are provided in large print at the entrance to each gallery – a large print version of the exhibition notes is available from Box Office. You can also find an audio version of the Exhibition Notes, and audio descriptions of some features of the exhibitions, on DCA’s Bloomberg App and Soundcloud. The Print Studio and Jute Café Bar are accessible by lift from either the front or back entrance or via a flight of stairs, with handrail. Our Print Studio is laid out with wide access routes to facilitate wheelchair manoeuvrability and ease of use by people with mobility impairment and also has accessible toilet facilities. A large print version of our Get Creative brochure of Print Studio courses is available from Box Office. DCA is also baby friendly with a baby changing/breastfeeding room and weekly Bring a Baby screenings in our cinemas.

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There are two designated disabled parking spaces in the car park at the back of the building.

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Toilets features at Dundee Contemporary Arts

We have one accessible unisex toilet, close to the galleries, on the ground floor, with an emergency pull cord. One accessible unisex toilet, close to the cinema entrance, on the lower ground floor, with emergency pull cord. Accessible toilet facilities in our Print Studio.

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