As 2024 draws to a close, on behalf of all my colleagues at the National Museum of Ireland, I would like to extend my warmest wishes to you all and thank you for your support and engagement in 2024. It has been a dynamic and exhilarating year for our team, and we look forward to seeing you at the Museum in 2025.
We will kick off the year with a launch of our 2025 programme which includes a new floor of galleries, Changing Ireland, exploring our 20th and 21st Century collections at our Museum in Collins Barracks. We will also see the Dead Zoo Lab open in the Riding School in Collins Barracks ensuring all our visitors get to spend time with their favourite Natural History specimens while the Museum in Merrion Street closes for the first phase of a refurbishment project. We will open a major new temporary exhibition at our Museum on Kildare st, Words on the Wave, which will include a significant loan of 17 early medieval Irish manuscripts from the Abbey in St Gall, Switzerland, a UNESCO World Heritage site. While colleagues working with our National Folklife Collection in Turlough Park will bring recent acquisitions out on display and engage visitors with some of the more contemporary objects of this incredible collection.
Finally, as we approach the end of the year I invite you to join us for a moment of reflection through the wonderful objects in our collection, whether it’s the recently installed Harry Clarke Stained Glass panels at Collins Barracks or any one of the incredible objects in our Museums, our team will be here throughout the festive season and are looking forward to welcoming you.
Wishing you all an enjoyable festive season and a peaceful New Year.
- Lynn Scarff, Director, National Museum of Ireland
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