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An Post Museum will be opening for free to the public on Friday 18 May to celebrate International Museum’s Day. There will also be two free organised tours, one at 11 am and other at 3pm. Spaces on the tours list is limited so booking is essential.

Over 2,000 years of Irish history and culture, from Celtic gold ‘ring-money’ to a 1970s UVF leader’s archive, from the Book of Kells to James Joyce’s Ulysses, from a Bronze Age axehead to an 1890s Irish football final medal. A treasure trove for the collector including manuscripts, books, ephemera, memorabilia, photographs, medals, militaria, coins, banknotes and other collectibles.

To mark the closing weekend of the exhibition Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA is holding a weekend of literary events on Friday 27 and Sunday 29 January 2012. Distinguished figures from the literary and performing arts will present a range of responses for adults and families. The weekend begins at 6.00pm on Friday 27 January with a dramatic reading of an excerpt from Samuel Beckett’s novella First Love by Irish actor Conor Lovett, who is internationally acclaimed for his interpretation of Beckett’s works. This echoes Neuenschwander’s 2005 participatory work of the same name, in which visitors to the exhibition describe their first love to a police sketch artist, with the resulting drawing forming part of the exhibition.

Using historic artefacts from the Hunt collection as well as private collections, the Museum presents an exhibition exploring aspects of dining and how the presentation of food has changed over the years. Presented in four distinct phases: up to 1700, the 18th century, the 19th and 20th  centuries, the exhibition  explores three themes:  table settings, [...]

Activities & Events at the Museum of Archaeology

Activities and events at the Museum of Natural History

Activities and Events at the Museum of Decorative Arts and History

Activities and Events at the Museum of Country Life

The 6.775 billion people currently occupying this planet rely on exactly the same 1% of available freshwater as every previous generation. How can our planet’s natural systems sustain this and what does this mean for our future?

Liquid mercury, glowing uranium, or sinister arsenic – which element stirs you up? How much nickel does an average body contain? What element will you bring to the periodic table? Science Gallery’s summer exhibition Elements has something for everyone from hands-on experiments for the kids to world renowned artworks, and intriguing artifacts celebrating the iconic periodic table and to top it all off, Bring Your Own Element – the world’s first crowd sourced periodic table.