Waterfront

Just south of the city centre, at the water's edge alongside the Tay Road Bridge, the domed Discovery Point is an impressive development centring on the Royal Research Ship Discovery (April-Oct Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-5pm; Nov-March Mon-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 11am-4pm; £5.95; joint ticket with Verdant Works and Old Steeple £12.15). Something of an icon for Dundee's renaissance, Discovery is a three-mast steam-assisted vessel built in Dundee in 1901 to take Captain Robert Falcon Scott on his polar expeditions. A combination of brute strength and elegance, she has been beautifully restored, with polished wood panels and brass trimmings giving scant indication of the privations suffered by the crew. Temperatures on board would plummet to -28°C in the Antarctic, and turns at having a bath came round every 47 days. As a introduction before stepping aboard you're led through a series of displays about the construction of the ship and Scott's journeys, including the chill-inducing "Polarama" about life in Antarctica and a compelling, if overhyped, audiovisual spectacular involving a model ship bursting through the screen and lots of dry ice.