Camperdown Wildlife Centre is open all year round! Organised group and family rates are available, and educational tours can also be arranged.

The Wildlife Centre is situated just 15 minutes drive from Dundee city centre, off the A923. It is located within the beautiful Camperdown Country Park, the largest in Dundee.

Visit the new Euopean Otters in their high-tech enclosure. The friendly otters enjoy playing in their open pools or basking in the sunshine. The observation building also allows you to learn about otters in the wild and you can see the otter sleeping quarters through the secret spying cameras!

Visit the European Brown Bears in their impressive enclosure. You can also view them through the huge window in the new visitor centre (or 'broch'), designed by renowned American artist Mark Dion. Watch the bears as they forage and play in their very own splash pool.

sunday 21 june
would you like to help break a record?
10am to 3pm
Camperdown Wildlife Centre is hosting one of the biggest Teddy Bears Picnics in the world. We are teaming up with other zoos in Europe to have the most teddies attending a zoo picnic at the same time to highlight the issues of many native European carnivores.
If you would like to say that you were involved in a Guinness World Records™ attempt, then gather your teddies and come along to Camperdown Wildlife Centre on Sunday 21st June 2009 before 11.30am and enjoy the day.
There will be lots of fun activities, face painting, street performers, animals to see and of course a chance to let your teddies see our two European Brown Bears, Comet and Star. Our conservation campaign for this year is carnivores of Europe and this will be the theme for the day to make the whole event more fun for you and your teddies.
Guinness World Records™ will allow a visitor to bring up to 20 of their own teddy bears for the record attempt and you must have something to eat for a picnic. The teddies having a picnic will only count at 11.30am so be sure to get here early to join in. The picnic activities will finish at 3pm but you can stay until our gates close at 4.30.
See you and your teddies soon!

saturday 4 july to sunday 16 august
camperdown zoofest - a festival of animals
various times each day for 6 weeks
Something fun every week of the school holidays. Various events throughout this holiday period may include, face-painting, storytelling, animals up close safari trails, workshops, quiz picnics and animal games. Keep an eye on our website for further details. Admission included in normal entrance fee.

friday 4 - sunday 6 september
dundee flower and food festival
Come along and see Camperdown Wildlife Centre's display at the Dundee Flower & Food Festival in Camperdown Park - a 3-day fun-packed family event. Accompanied children under the age of 16 are admitted free to the Flower & Food Festival. Check out the website at www.dundeeflowerandfoodfestival.com.
Flower Show opening times - Fri 11am-6pm;
Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 10am-5.30pm.

saturday 10 october
community conservation day
10am to 3pm
Come along and see what's been happening at Camperdown throughout the year. This community day is free admission for all visitors.

saturdays and sundays
5 & 6, 12 & 13, 19 & 20 december
meet santa and his elf
12noon to 4pm each Saturday and Sunday
Traditional family fun with Santa and his Elf. Write your letter to Santa, get creative in our craft area, and enjoy a hot drink and mince pie in Mrs Claus' Café to keep you warm. Admission included in normal entrance fee. Small charge payable for refreshments.

opening hours:

march - september
mon - sun 10am - 4.30pm
(last admission 3.45pm)

october - february
mon - sun 10am - 3.30pm
(last admission 2.45pm)

prices from 1 April 2009 - 31 Mar 2010

adult £3.40
concession/child £2.75
children under 3 years £1
family ticket (2 adults and up to 3 children) £9.80

group accompanied (12 people or more) £3.90 per person.
group unaccompanied (12 people or more) £2.75 per person.

we regret that we cannot accept any credit or debit cards as a method of payment at Camperdown Wildlife Centre.

camperdown wildlife centre
camperdown country park,
coupar angus road,
dundee
dd2 4tf
Telephone 01382 431811

leisure.communities@dundeecity.gov.uk

Camperdown Wildlife Centre is one of the zoos linked to the Association Européenne pour l’Etude et la Conservation des Lémuriens (AEECL). The association is made up of a group of European zoological gardens and universities, that have joined forces to carry out conservation and research projects for Madagascar’s highly endangered lemurs. Members help to raise money, provide information and captive manage some of the world’s endangered lemur species.

The member zoos have furthermore initiated captive breeding programmes for the blue-eyed Black Lemur, Crowned Lemur and the Red-Bellied Lemur within the framework of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA).

Camperdown Wildlife Centre has put together the education series 'wild about learning'. The aim is to supply the highest standard of zoological education programme to visitors using every possible resource that is available to education staff.

To find out more about our education programme, please contact Bradly Yule at Camperdown Wildlife Centre on 01382 431806 or email bradly.yule@dundeecity.gov.uk