Classical Museum - A Guided Tour

Welcome to Classics Now, an exciting cultural festival online, in Dublin and beyond.Now in our sixth year, the weekend will showcase the current burst of exploration and re-engagement with Classics and the ancient world. Artists, writers and thinkers, international and Irish, are taking Classics as a lens to examine our contemporary cultural and political preoccupations and challenges.Our programme in February 2025 will present inviting encounters including performances and readings, both online and live, in public spaces - art galleries and cultural centres - with a number of events appealing to second and third-level students. In interviews, discussions, film screenings, dance and musical theatre performances you will see and hear from artists working in different genres and art forms, in thought-provoking and imaginative ways.Come and join the new Renaissance.https://www.classicsnow.ie/

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A Guided Tour of Classical Museum, University College Dublin with Museum Curator, Dr Joanna Day

University College Dublin

Museum TourJoin Museum Curator, Dr Joanna Day for a guided tour of the Classical Museum at the UCD School of Classics, Belfield.This guided tour is free but you must register. Tour will take place 11am - 11.45am.The Classical Museum in UCD holds the largest collection of Classical antiquities on display in Ireland. The collection was started early in the twentieth century by Professor Henry Browne and has been added to through donations and loans over the past century. Artefacts include Roman and Greek coins, magnificent Greek pottery ranging from the Neolithic period to the first century BC, glass, jewellery, inscriptions and funerary sculpture, Cypriot ceramics and a small Egyptian collection. Thematic exhibitions change regularly.Admission free, booking required.This ticket will give you access to the Guided Tour only. _____________________________________Visual artist Genevieve Harden will lead a drawing workshop after the museum tour (12pm - 1.30pm). Tickets for the drawing workshop are €15. If you would like to take part in the drawing workshop, please book a combined ticket: Museum Tour and Drawing Workshop here: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/801353348437?aff=oddtdtcreator" title="https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/801353348437?aff=oddtdtcreator" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tickets for Tour &amp; Guided Workshop</a>About the Drawing WorkshopTo take a closer look at the museum objects, we invite you to respond creatively through your own artwork in a drawing workshop with artist Genevieve Harden. (No previous art experience required. Materials provided.)

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