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Ireland's Treasures - National Gallery - Millennium Wing by GeocachingIreland (1.5/1.5)
Ireland's Treasures - National Gallery - Millennium Wing
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The National Gallery of Ireland houses the national collection of Irish and European art, & is located in the heart of Georgian Dublin. There are two entrances, Merrion Square & Clare Street.
It was founded in 1854 and opened its doors ten years later. The Gallery has an extensive, representative collection of Irish paintings and is also notable for its Italian Baroque and Dutch masters painting.
The façade copies the Natural History building. Designed by Francis Fowke, based on early plans by Charles Lanyon, completed & opened in 1864, with just 112 paintings. By 1891 space was already limited.
The collection has about 14,000 artworks, including about 2,500 oil paintings, 5,000 drawings, 5,000 prints, and some sculpture, furniture and other works of art.
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For this adventure you could enter from Clare Street to the Millenium Wing  - you are looking for Room 3.

Ireland's Treasures - Natural History Museum - Irish Animals by GeocachingIreland (1.5/1.5)
Ireland's Treasures - Natural History Museum - Irish Animals
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Also known as 'The Dead Zoo', the Museum's 10,000 exhibits provide a glimpse of the natural world that has delighted generations of visitors since the doors opened in 1857.
The building is a ‘cabinet-style’ museum designed to showcase a wide-ranging and comprehensive zoological collection and has changed little in over a century.
Often described as a ‘museum of a museum’, its exhibits provide a glimpse of the natural world.
The building was designed by architect Frederick Clarendon in harmony with the National Gallery of Ireland on the other side of Leinster Lawn. A statue of Victorian surgeon & explorer, Thomas Heazle Parke, stands at the front of the building.
The Irish Room on the ground floor is dedicated to animals native to Ireland, featuring a variety of mammals, birds, fish, and insects.
The giant Irish deer skeletons are some of the most famous and distinctive animals on display here. One of the skeletons has an antler span of 3.5 metres.

Ireland's Treasures - National Gallery - Milltown Wing - 1st Floor by GeocachingIreland (1.5/1.5)
Ireland's Treasures - National Gallery - Milltown Wing - 1st Floor
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Following many notable bequests, the collection had grown considerably and further wings were built: the Milltown Wing, the Beit Wing & the Millennium Wing being added in time.
Make your way to Room 20, in the Milltown Wing - Irish Stained Glass exhibition.
There is a large cabinet in the room, this cabinet protects a precious painting and is only open for 1 hour, twice a week.

Ireland's Treasures - National Gallery - Dargan Wing - 3rd Floor by GeocachingIreland (1.5/1.5)
Ireland's Treasures - National Gallery - Dargan Wing - 3rd Floor
The library and archives collections at the National Gallery of Ireland encompass unique and historically significant collections for the study of art history. The origins of the collections can be traced back to the foundation of the institution over 160 years ago. Covering the visual arts from the classical to the contemporary these collections continue to be a vital research element of the National Collection. The development of the library and archive has been supported principally through public funding and the private donations of generous benefactors.
Open to the public, it has particularly rich holdings relating to the history of western European art from the Middle Ages on, and the collections relating to Irish and Italian art are extensive. The collection amounts to over 100,000 published volume
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Make your way to Room 45, Dargan Wing, 3rd Floor.
Locate the painting by Francesco Guardi : Venice: The Rialto Bridge with the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi.

Ireland's Treasures - National History Museum - Mammals of the World by GeocachingIreland (1.5/1.5)
Ireland's Treasures - National History Museum - Mammals of the World
On the upper floor you will find an elephant, polar bear, lions, an array of monkeys, apes and lemurs which make up the Mammals of the World collection.
Other popular favourites include Spoticus the giraffe, and a 20 metre long whale skeleton suspended from the roof.
The Discovery Zone allows visitors to handle taxidermy and bones. The Reading Area, at first floor level, offers a more sedate experience.
Entering the room from the back stairs, proceed along the right side and between the African Black Rhinoceros and the Sable Antelope, you will find a cheeky chappy.

Ireland's Treasures - National Library - Entrance Hall by GeocachingIreland (1.5/1.5)
Ireland's Treasures - National Library - Entrance Hall
The National Library is located on Kildare Street in the centre of Dublin.
This is the National Library of Ireland’s main public building where you will find the Main Reading Room, microfilm reading room facilities, and the Genealogy Service.
It was designed in a classical style by the Cork-born architect, Thomas Deane. The purpose-built library building was opened in 1890.  The Library building is itself in many respects a national treasure. It is spacious in design and rich in texture.
Your adventure begins in the entrance hall which is decorated with a detailed mosaic floor and beautifully designed stained glass windows by Jones and Wallis of Birmingham. The mosaic floor, designed by Oppenheimer of Manchester, is in tones of green, blue, grey and gold. The owl, symbol of the library, is featured in the floor design along with the motto “sapientia” meaning wisdom.

Ireland's Treasures - National Archaeology Museum - Canoe by GeocachingIreland (1.5/1.5)
Ireland's Treasures - National Archaeology Museum - Canoe
At the National Museum of Ireland - Archaeology, Kildare Street, you'll find artefacts dating from 7000BC to the 20th Century exhibited in seven galleries.
You can visit the Kingship and Sacrifice exhibition which includes recently found bog bodies.
Ór – Ireland’s Gold exhibition is one of the largest and most important gold collections in Europe.
Featured in the fascinating Ancient Egypt exhibition are the gilt and painted cartonnage case of the mummy Tentdinebu, as well as a number of important stelae, tomb furniture, offering tables, jewellery and household objects.
Not to be missed is the Viking Ireland exhibition. At the centre of this exhibition is a display of finds from the Museum’s Dublin excavations, carried out between 1962 and 1981.
There are also several temporary exhibitions.
For this adventure - find the museums largest artefact, The Lurgan Canoe which is located on the same floor.

Ireland's Treasures - National Library - Reading Room by GeocachingIreland (1.5/1.5)
Ireland's Treasures - National Library - Reading Room
The second part of your adventure in the National Library is to visit the Reading Room upstairs.
You will have to check in any bags (free of charge) before going upstairs.
Moving up towards the main Reading Room you will notice the carved figures which represent the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa and America on the mezzanine landing of the main staircase.
Following the curved stone stairway to the first floor, visitors arrive into the impressive domed Reading Room. It is horse-shoe shaped and almost 50 feet high in the centre.
On entering the Reading Room, go to the visitor area on your left. You will then see a row of large books on your right.

Ireland's Treasures - National Archaeology Museum - Treasury by GeocachingIreland (1.5/1.5)
Ireland's Treasures - National Archaeology Museum - Treasury
Going back to the main hall, The Treasury exhibition space has been reopened after a major refurbishment where you can see iconic artefacts such as the Ardagh Chalice, the Tara Brooch and the Derrynaflan Hoard, plus the Faddan More Psalter exhibition.
Stand with your back to the main entrance.
Worth looking at is a cabinet on the left, which houses 9 giant gold beads. Discovered in Co. Roscommon they date to 800-700 BC. Thought to be the most mysterious of all the gold ornaments of the Late Bronze Age displayed here. Eleven beads were found, each consists of two sections fused together & perforated (suggesting they would be strung together). The graduated sizes also suggest a necklace of massive size. One is in the British Museum but the whereabouts of the last is unknown.
For this adventure: standing with your back to the main entrance, the 3 mini exhibition rooms of 'Ór - Ireland's Gold' are in front of you.  Go to the small exhibition room on the right - you are looking for a particular gold collar.

Ireland's Treasures - National Archaeology Museum - Let's Go! by GeocachingIreland (1.5/1.5)
Ireland's Treasures - National Archaeology Museum - Let's Go!
Located on Kildare Street, it is the home of the archaeological collections & an architectural landmark.
Built in the Victorian Palladian style, it has been compared with the Altes Museum, Berlin. Neo-classical influences can be seen in the collonaded entrance & the domed rotunda, which rises to a height of 20m, and is modelled on the Pantheon, Rome.
Within the rotunda, classical columns – made of Irish marble – mirror the entrance & the tiled zodiac floor.
In the great centre court, a balcony is supported by slender columns with elaborate capitals & bases decorated with cherubs. On the balcony, further rows of plain columns and attractive openwork spandrels support the roof.
Worth noting: the mosaic floors (classical mythology), majolica fireplaces & the richly carved wooden doors.
There are artefacts dating from 7000BC to the 20th Century, exhibited in 7 galleries.
Pass through the rotunda, turn right for the Treasury, enter the first room on your right and locate the interactive screens.