Press Release | 8 March 2017
After six years of refurbishment works, the National Gallery of Ireland will reopen to the public on Thursday 15th June 2017 with a complete new presentation of the permanent collection. To celebrate the reopening there will be a wide-ranging public engagement programme, details of which will be announced in the coming months. Visitors can also look forward to the highly anticipated exhibition Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry which opens that same week, on Saturday 17th June. The Gallery will now breathe again as a place to explore and enjoy for all visitors.
Over 21,000 tickets have been booked to date for the Gallery’s current exhibition, Beyond Caravaggio. Weekends are booking out quickly as well as Thursday evenings. Tickets for the show can be booked online in advance through the Gallery’s website. A contributing factor to the exhibition’s success has been the diverse public programme built around the exhibition which has seen many events, talks and tours sold out well in advance. The accompanying audio guide to the show – free with ticket admission – has also proven very popular with visitors.
There will be an extraordinary number of exhibitions to look forward to in the coming months such as Margaret Clarke (1864-1961): A Life through Art (13 May – 20 August 2017, free admission), followed by Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry (17 June-17 September 2017, admission charge). Advance ticket booking for the Vermeer show will go live from mid-April on the Gallery’s website. It will be followed by Käthe Kollwitz: Life, Death and War (6 September – 10 December 2017, free admission); Frederic William Burton (23 October 2017 – 14 January 2018, admission charge) and Aftermath: The War Landscapes of William Orpen (11 November 2017 – 11 February 2018, free admission).
