National Museum of Ireland description and photos - Ireland: Dublin (Topic)

National Museum of Ireland description and photos - Ireland: Dublin. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is National Museum of Ireland.

Photo & Description

The National Museum of Ireland specializes in Irish art, culture and natural history.

The Museum was founded on 14 August 1877 by a special act of the Irish Parliament. A special building was erected on Kildare Street in Dublin and opened in 1890. The new museum exhibited coins, medals, the most important archaeological finds, including the Arda bowl and the Tara brooch, as well as ethnographic and geological collections.

At first the museum was called the Dublin Museum of Science and Art, then the National Museum of Science and Art, and since 1921 it has been called the National Museum of Ireland. Like any museum on a national scale, the National Museum lacked both exhibition space and storage space for collections. In 1994, the Collins barracks, a complex of buildings from the 18th-19th centuries, were transferred to the museum. The first part of the expositions was opened there in September 1997. Another branch of the museum is located in the city of Mayo.

Now the funds of the museum have nearly 4 million exhibits, of which almost two million belong to the section of archeology. Here you can see gold items from the ancient Celtic era, items from the early Middle Ages, and finds from the Viking era. Some of the finds gained worldwide fame and became a kind of symbol of Celtic art. These are, for example, the Arda and Derrinaflan bowls - richly decorated silver vessels, the Tara brooch - a masterpiece of jewelry art of that time, a gold boat from the Brouter hoard.

The museum's ethnographic collections were collected in the most distant parts of the world: Polynesia, South America, West Africa, etc. Collections of the section of applied arts and history tell about the culture of the country and its inhabitants over the past two millennia.

The Museum of Natural History (part of the National Museum of Ireland) is often referred to as a museum within a museum. now we can see it practically the same as it looked in 1856.

We also recommend reading Holy Cross Church of the Livadia Palace description and photos - Crimea: Livadia

Topic: National Museum of Ireland description and photos - Ireland: Dublin.