Classical Museum - A Guided Tour
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Classical Museum - A Guided Tour

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

By ClassicsNow

Date and time

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:00 - 13:00 GMT

Location

University College Dublin

UCD School of Classics Newman Building (Room K216) Belfield Ireland

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour

Museum Tour

Join us for a guided tour of the Classical Museum, and an introduction to the fascinating collection with Museum Curator, Dr Joanna Day, as well as to the contemporary fine art print works currently in situ, created by Hungarian-British artist, Zsuzsanna Ardó.

UCD, School of Classics, Belfield.
Tour will take place 12pm - 1pm.

This guided tour is free but you must book a ticket, as places are limited.

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.

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Welcome to Classics Now, an exciting cultural festival online, in Dublin and beyond.

Following the success of our fourth festival in 2024, our fifth 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/