THE Hunt Museum invites us all to explore the riches of our city’s past as the relevant exhibition enters its final week at the Custom House. It’s a display of maps and paintings and more that depicts our wealth of history and this week, a talk and tours will encourage new insight.
“The paintings and maps will guide you through time from the 17th century right up to the modern city as we know it,” encourages Museum director Dr Hugh Maguire.
If you can, make time for attendant free events:
Wednesday 4: public tour at 1pm.
Friday 6, 11am: Tour of the exhibition by Ken Bergin, Special Collections Librarian at UL; also Lecture by Jennifer Moore of the Royal Irish Academy at 1pm. Her theme is ‘Using the Irish Historic Towns Atlas in Mapping My City, My Home’.
Friday 13, 1pm: Lecture by Javier Buron Garcia on ‘Limerick in the Third Industrial Revolution’.
“We can only touch on what’s available and whet the visitor’s appetite,” suggests Dr Maguire. “The available budget and the limitations of a gallery space only allow us a sampling of the beautiful imagery held in the region itself and in national collections including the National Library of Ireland and the National Gallery of Ireland”.
He makes the point that the exhibition especially celebrates the Norton, Leonard, MacAnally and Lysaght collections with Hunt Museum’s sister institution, the Glucksman Library at UL that shares this exhibition.
“Such collections as those accumulated by Fr. John Leonard highlight a deep affection for the city,” concluded the museum director.
The show comes down on February 12.
