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The Hunt for Love

Join us for Love Tours on Valentine’s Day ! Discover John Hunt’s passion for Ireland’s Mediaval past and his love of arts. Lots of romantic objects and stories will be shared along the way. Come at the...

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Your memories for the 20th Birthday

On the 14th of February 2017 the museum will be celebrating 20 years in the Custom House. We will be gathering your Hunt Museum experiences over the next few months and building an online memory store...

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Spring 2017 Academic Programme

Limerick 2030: What is the Future of our City? Join us on to learn about Limerick’s 2030 plans and how these changes can be set in their historical context. Each evening a different aspect of...

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Capital Grant Award

The Hunt Museum is delighted to announce we have been awarded €400k of capital funds to address issues within and around the Custom House building. The award was made by the Department of Arts,...

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Personalised Easter Bunnies

Personalised Easter Bunnies with name – €19.50. To place order please contact us on 061 312833. Orders must be in by this Friday March 17th. The post Personalised Easter Bunnies appeared first on The...

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Cruinniú na nÓg Stop Motion Workshops

An overview of the children’s Stop Motion workshops that created our “Signals of Change” video Three minute read  Author: Chelsea Canavan On 23 June, as part of Cruinniú na nÓg, in Limerick,  young...

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Blog Series: Object of the Month, Momento Mori – Pomander skull

Alas, poor Yorick! Reminders of mortality and sensory overload – skulls and perfume Authors: Jean Tierney & Jill Cousins...

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Heritage Week: Press Release

Get your hands working for heritage Learn 3D Digitising with the Hunt Museum Collection  “Sometimes the eye doesn’t see an object’s detail but working with it digitally on a computer screen reveals so...

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Hunt Museum Docent Blog Series – MEDIEVAL IRISH DRINKING VESSELS

by Geraldine Burke, Hunt Museum 3 minutes to read Keywords: Liam MacCarthy Cup, Methers, Loving Cup, Drinking Vessels, Food Storage Methers – Item Codes HCM 221-5 – The Hunt Museum Collection,...

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Connecting culture and migration: Europeana Migration Collection Days at the...

Press Release from Hunt Museum, Connecting culture and migration: Europeana Migration Collection Days at the Hunt Museum 30 November – 2 December – A weekend collecting personal objects and stories on...

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Hunt Museum Docent Blog Series – THE ANGEL WITH THE BROKEN WING

by Grace Cantillon, Hunt Museum 3 minutes to read Keywords: Angel, Stained Glass, Medieval There are over 40 angels in the Hunt Museum Collection. This one, in medieval stained glass, is distinctive...

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PRESS RELEASE: Bedford Row Project

Yesterday the Hunt Museum and Limerick Prison Education Unit took great pleasure in presenting the Bedford Row Project with a cheque for €1500. This will help them cover some of their Children’s Club...

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HUNT MUSEUM DOCENT BLOG SERIES – THOTH – BABOON AND IBIS GOD OF THE MOON

By Brid Frawley, Hunt Museum, 4 minutes to read Keywords: Thoth, Ibis, God of the Moon, Baboon, Ancient Egypt, Seshat, Afterlife, Gods, Goddesses Figure 1: Thoout, Thoth Deux fois Grand, le Second...

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Hunt Museum appoints three new Board Members

To complement our, shortly to be published, Hunt Museum Strategy 2025 we are very pleased to welcome four experts to the Board.   Key to our strategy are our Education and Community strands and the...

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HUNT MUSEUM DOCENT BLOG SERIES – Tea with the Hare

By Dolores McBurnie, Hunt Museum Docent, 2 minutes to read Keywords: Hare, March Hare, symbolism, Ming, porcelain, tea ceremony, Japanese, Zen, longevity, immortality, Taoism Fig. 1      Sweetmeat...

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PRESS RELEASE: EXTRACT – 22nd Annual Exhibition by 2nd Year Painting...

PRESS RELEASE: EXTRACT 22nd Annual Exhibition by 2nd Year Painting Students, Limerick School of Art & Design March 28th, 2019   – April 14th, 2019 An exhibition inspired by the Hunt Collection...

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HUNT MUSEUM DOCENT BLOG SERIES – BEAUFORT TAPESTRY

By Catherine Woods, Hunt Museum, 3 minutes to read Key words: Tapestries, fragment, medieval europe, Avignon, pope, papal city Beaufort, Turenne and Comminges Tapestry Fragment, Hunt Museum, HCL 017...

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HUNT MUSEUM DOCENT BLOG SERIES – A DIVINE MAKEOVER

Keywords: Egyptian, Roman, Goddess, Gods, Horus, Isis, Greek, Greco-Roman, Hellenisation, symbolism,breastfeeding, kingship, Alexandria.   By Grace Cantillon 3 minutes to read Figure 1 – Carving of...

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Press Release – Lavery & Osborne: Observing Life

The Hunt Museum to feature a Summer exhibition of two Irish Greats – Lavery and Osborne 1 June to 30 September   Sir John Lavery and Walter Frederick Osborne were born in the mid-nineteenth century...

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Press Release: The Hunt Summer Exhibition Gala Dinner & Art Auction

Complimenting the Summer Exhibition on Lavery & Osborne: Observing Life, The Hunt Museum is holding a lavish gala dinner in the gardens on Thursday 30th May, to raise money for the Hunt Museum....

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