National Museum of Ireland

The National Museum of Ireland (English Irish National Museum, Irish Ard- na hÉireann Mhúsaem ) in Dublin was founded in 1890. It resulted in the collections of the Royal Irish Academy, the Museum of Irish Industry of the National History Museum and the Dublin Museum of Science and Art together under one administration. First, it reflected the British- imperialist view of the world and contained hardly any specifically Irish. Only after the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922, it should also be a propaganda instrument of Irish nationalism at the request of the government. Administratively, it was subordinate to the Ministry of Education.

History

Among the most important exhibits was one example a 1846 captured during the Sikh war field gun and the 1790 imported to Ireland sofa of the Lord Chancellor. The big game preparations of the National History Museum are the prey of Livingstone's expeditions.

Although a first Superintendent of Irish Antiquities was appointed in 1890 by George Coffey, own excavations specifically for Irish history, under the direction of the Museum, found only be performed after a commission with the Swedish Prof. Nils Lithberg in 1927 created a plan of reorganization. The implementation took over the Austrian Adolf Mahr, who was first Keeper of Irish Antiquities and from 1934 to 1939 director of the museum.

First Mahr ordered the installation again. The Irish artifacts were placed in the central hall, etc. brought gold jewelry of the vaults in the general exhibition. Furthermore, he promoted strengthened from 1931 young archaeologists who first brought in modern scientific methods in archeology. Here he passed his skills more often and did not wait the required permits. Nevertheless, the house only a third of the funds were available in the 1930s, it had been under the colonial rule.

The Irish emigrated Jew Albert Bender donated in 1931 a collection of 22 Tibetan paintings on leather. In the following years, more Asiatica, which in 1932 named the collection in honor of his mother, and was issued in Augusta Bender Memorial Room of Far Eastern Art. The opening of the hall on June 25, 1934, by the Taoiseach Éamon de Valera. Stocks are since 1973 in the magazine.

Departments

Until 1922 Leinster House was, since the seat of the Irish Parliament, to the venues

The exhibitions are now at several locations

  • Archaeology: Kildare St
  • Decorative Arts & History Collins Barracks
  • Country Life: Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co. Mayo
  • Natural History Museum, Merrion Street

The department, established in 1997 in the Collins Barracks is now the seat of the administration. Opened in 1991, the museum together with the Electricity Supply Board, the Number Twenty Nine Lower Fitzwilliam Street, dedicated to the city life in Georgian Dublin. In the Field Station for Country Life ( Country Life ), which was opened in 2001, the rural life in the 18th and 19th century is reconstructed.

First Anglo-Sikh War David Livingstone Albert M. Bender
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