About the event

Join us for a guided tour of the Classical Museum, and an introduction to the fascinating collection with Museum Curator, Dr Joanna Day.

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.

https://www.ucd.ie/classics/about/classicalmuseum‍

Admission free; early booking recommended as places are limited.

Classical Museum,
School of Classics
Room K216, Newman Building
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4

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Participants

Dr Joanna Day is Curator of the Classical Museum, University College Dublin, Assistant Professor in Greek Archaeology and currently Head of the School of Classics. From 2009-2010 she was Visiting Scholar in the Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Previously she was Teaching and Research Fellow in Classics, University of Galway, and Lecturer in Greek Archaeology, Trinity College Dublin.

She was co-curator with Pádraic Moore of the exhibition, ‘The Museum of Ancient History’, commissioning artists Dorothy Cross, Michelle Doyle, Aleana Egan, Patrick Hough, Richard Proffitt and Charlotte Weise to make work in response to the ancient world. Their new pieces were installed alongside the artefacts in the Museum’s collection and seen during ClassicsNow 2022.

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