Science Week - Special Public Tour - Behind the Scenes: Conservation at the National Museum
Join us for a special, behind-the-scenes tour of the Conservation studios of the National Museum of Ireland.
Temporary Exhibition
Tracy O’Brien is a photographer and socially engaged artist, who graduated from TU Dublin with a BA in Photography and completed an MA in Socially Engaged Art at NCAD.
Pictured is a camogie dress worn by Maeve Gilroy in the 1960s. She was wearing this dress when she won her second All-Ireland Senior camogie title with Antrim in 1967.
Non-Conformist Chair, Eileen Gray
A ‘Spoon Garden’ inspired by vegetable gardens as her response to Covid-19, with each silver spoon displayed in a wooden block, with a cut out centre.
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Find out moreCollections pertaining to the decorative arts and history are maintained by curators in the Art and Industrial Division.
Their role is to collect, manage, and preserve Ireland’s heritage in the decorative and applied arts, as well as its political, economic, military and social history.
The primary aim is to promote a wider understanding of Ireland’s cultural heritage and to highlight the country’s contribution to European decorative arts and in a broader international context.
Ukiyo-e (‘pictures of the floating world’) first appeared in 17th century Edo (present-day Tokyo) when a middle-class culture emerged amidst the expansion of the new Japanese capital.
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