Press Release: Vangoyourself this Summer at the Lavery and Osborne Exhibition...
Opening on June 1st is a new Irish exhibition ‘Lavery and Osborne: Observing life ’ at the Hunt Museum, Limerick, featuring Irish artists, Sir John Lavery and Walter Frederick Osborne. Both born in...
View ArticlePress Release: Hunt Museum to hold Golf Pro Am
In support of a new Hunt Museum Public Garden, where the railings are down and the garden has places to play and to sit, to enjoy the building and the view across the Shannon, the Friends of the Hunt...
View ArticlePress Release: Open Minds at the Hunt Museum
A FREE Exhibition of creative art works from thirteen prisons and two post release centres from 19th October to 24th November 2019 at the Hunt Museum, Last Friday 18 October, saw the opening of the...
View ArticlePRESS RELEASE: Launch of ‘Three Muses: exploring art and identity’
Launch of ‘Three Muses: exploring art and identity’, a joint programme from three Limerick museums to inspire primary school pupils to explore visual art. The programme will run from January-June 2020...
View ArticlePRESS RELEASE: Launch of ‘Three Muses: exploring art and identity’
Launch of ‘Three Muses: exploring art and identity’, a joint programme from three Limerick museums to inspire primary school pupils with visual art. The programme runs from January-June 2020 Launch...
View ArticlePress Release: Time, Tide and the Memory of the House
Time, Tide and the Memory of the House Exhibition of paintings by Hughie O’Donoghue 7 December – 26 January 2020 The Hunt Museum, Limerick This new exhibition of paintings by Hughie O’Donoghue,...
View ArticlePRESS RELEASE: Open Call to Design Hunt Museum in the Garden
We are going to take down the railings around the Hunt Museum and create a public urban garden in the heart of Limerick city. This is an open invitation for a Garden Designer to design the new space...
View ArticleLimerick’s Three Muses inspire local schoolchildren
Schoolchildren across Limerick have been discovering the city’s art collections through a new education initiative between The Hunt Museum, Limerick Museum and Limerick City Gallery of Art. The Three...
View ArticleUnderstated Elegance In A Coconut Shell
SILVER-MOUNTED COCONUT SHELL DISH This little beauty often goes unnoticed. It sits shyly towards the bottom of a display cabinet where some more ostentatious companions flaunt their charms. Often...
View ArticleColouring Book
Hi everyone! We have designed a colouring book which features items in our collection. Please feel free to download and print a copy using this link or you can drop by the museum during opening hours...
View ArticleGarden Competition Submissions
These are the design submissions for the new Garden for the Hunt Museum which we put out as a competition. We want your opinion on which designs are the best! So hit that like button on your favourite...
View ArticleThree Muses Activity Pack
We are delighted to bring you The Three Muses Activity Pack, a learning resource inspired by the collections of The Hunt Museum, Limerick Museum and Limerick City Gallery of Art. It is bursting with...
View ArticleMuseum from Home
The Hunt Museum’s Virtual Museum Experience Brings Art, Culture & Costume Design to Our Homes ‘Entwined in the Fabric’ Online Exhibition Virtual Tour ‘Best Costume goes to…’ Family Costume Design...
View ArticleTake a Virtual Dive into Hunt Museum Education Week
Hunt Museum Education Week runs from Monday ( April 27th) and will run until Friday May 1st. To try to help teachers and parents trying to source curriculum based material during Covid19, the Hunt...
View ArticleArdnacrusha Memories: collecting your stories about the Shannon...
May to September 2020 The Hunt Museum, Limerick The Shannon Hydro-Electric Scheme was one the first major developments by the Irish Free State in the 1920s. It played a pivotal role in the development...
View ArticleSybil: A Very Irish Entrepreneur
Sybil Connolly was born in Wales to Irish and English parents, during her teenage years she moved to be schooled in a convent in Co. Waterford, Ireland. At seventeen she was apprenticed to the London...
View ArticleEuropeana Sport – Ireland’s Stories
Europeana Sport – Ireland’s Stories asks people to dig out their sporting memorabilia and contribute to Europeana Sport, a European project on the culture and history of sport. Europeana Sport –...
View ArticleMuseum in the Garden: Announcing the Competition Winner
Three finalists and a public consultation later, the judges of the Hunt Museum Garden Design Competition decide on Nicola Haines’s amazing community influenced garden for the Hunt Museum....
View ArticlePlay With The Three Muses
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