This fascinating exhibition looks at what life was like in Tayside asylums in the 19th century. The exhibition was created by the participants in a National Lottery Heritage Fund project led by the University Archives called Change Minds. This unique heritage and creative wellbeing project encouraged people with mental health challenges to use historical archives to research and develop creative responses to the lives of asylum patients in the past, developing a deeper understanding of their own experience along the way. The exhibition features images and items from the Archives and reflections on both historical approaches to mental health care and those of today.
The exhibition is free and is in the Central Library, Wellgate Centre, Dundee until 3 August.