📣✍ 5 weeks of FREE Writing Workshops Inspired by Objects with Gerry Hanberry for the #Bealtaine Festival. Bígí spreagtha! 🗓 Weds. 1 - Weds. 29 May ⏲ 11:00am-1:00pm 📌 Galway City Museum Ireland BOOKINGS: 📞(091)532460/ 📧[email protected] @galwaycityco @thisisgalway

We regret to say this event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We promise to re-schedule it for later in the year! Míle buíochas!

An initiative of National Gallery of Ireland, #NationalDrawingDay is an annual celebration of drawing and creativity happening 18 May 2024. Drop into Galway City Museum and avail of our multiple sketching stations throughout the galleries. Suitable for all ages Tar isteach agus bígí spreaghta!

📣New CPD Course at Galway City Museum! Object-Based Learning (OBL), Place Based Learning (PBL) and Creativity in the Museum and Classroom. We have teamed up with the Galway Education Support Centre to create a new CPD course running this July. More: loom.ly/9Er3liY

A treat for you this rainy Tuesday, we're delighted to announce @TheUniversityChoir of Sewanee will be gracing us with their presence TODAY, 3:00pm - 3:30pm. The 30-minute cappella recital (x 40 students) will take place indoors @GalwayCityMuseum. Tar isteach agus bain sult as!

Join Gerry Hanberry and his class of budding creative writers today, Saturday 22 June, 3pm - 4pm at the Museum for Readings: Inspired by Objects for #BealtaineFestival 2024. Admission is free / saorchead isteach. loom.ly/KpIfAf4

📣👀Last chance to see!! 'Aran Island Life: the Ritchie-Pickow Collection' and 'Biodiversity at Merlin Park Woods', will soon make way for #GIAF exhibition, 'Women of the Thar Desert' @KarenCox. Only 1 week left, open Tue-Sat, 10am-5pm, Sun 12pm-5pm. Free/Saorchead Isteach!

🎥👀 Bastille Day Ireland Film Screenings Galway City Museum on Saturday 6 July, 11:30am & 2:00pm. FREE, no booking required, first come first seated! Bígí linn agus bígí spreagtha! Discover the full programme of #BastilleDayIreland at loom.ly/yL845ZE

📸✨ FREE TALK: Women of the Thar Desert - BOOK NOW!✨ Exhibition by award-winning Karen Cox Photography now open Galway City Museum. Join Karen on Sat. 20 July, 2:00pm-3:00pm, to hear all about it! 📞091 532460 / [email protected] Galway City Council #GIAF24 #TharDesert #WomenofThar #photos

📣Check out the new @GIAF exhibition Galway City Museum "Women of the Thar Desert" by award-winning photographer Karen Cox. Open Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm (Galleries close at 4.45pm). Admission free / saorchead isteach! Tar isteach, bígí spreagtha! @galwaycityco Karen Cox Photography

🔦COLLECTIONS SPOTLIGHT: A 'Galway Races' poster 🏇 Issued by the Great Southern Railways Omnibus Department in 1936 with times & fares of buses travelling from Limerick, Mountbellew, Sligo & Clifden to the Galway Races. Are you up for the Races? #GalwayRaces

🎥Galway in Objects - a taster! This project for school children is a work in progress to be rolled out later this year. Developed by Galway City Museum in collaboration with artists and teachers, and funded by Galway City Council and Creative Ireland. Full talk coming soon! #GalwayShawl

🗣TALK: Old Irish Customs of Lughnasa by Marion McGarry👩‍🌾🌾 Saturday 17 August, 2pm-3pm Galway City Museum FREE entry but booking is strongly advised. BOOK your seat on (091) 532460 or by email to [email protected] All Ages! Bígí linn! @galwaycityco This is Galway #Lughnasa #gcm

Galway tour guide Brian Nolan will give a FREE lively, creative and entertaining talk on stone portals as a key to Galway's past. Galway City Museum on Tuesday 20 August, 3:00pm - 3:45pm. No booking required! @Galwaycityco @CorribBeo #SurroundedByStone National Heritage Week 2024. Bígí linn!

🎥 View the video recording of our recent Paisley & Galway Shawls talk with Dr Dan Coughlan, Curator of Textiles at Paisley Museum in Scotland: loom.ly/gMgjDXw 👀 #GalwayShawl #PaisleyShawl #galwaycitymuseum #gcm @galwaycityco Paisley Museum

📣BOOK NOW for the talk on 'Old Irish Customs of Lughnasa' with Dr Marion McGarry this Saturday 17 August, 2 pm - 3 pm 🌼🌾 FREE but booking advised: 📞 (091) 532 460 / 📧 [email protected] Galway City Council This is Galway @ATUGalwayCity RPendergraft L&TC irishalive #Lughnasa

Talk & Tour at Galway City Museum for Heritage Week 2024, see GalwayCityMuseum.ie for more information. @galwaycityco

LECTURES: Surrounded by Stone, SAT., 7 September, 2pm-4pm Galway City Museum. We're delighted to welcome 3 archaeologists, Claire Cotter, Christy Cunniffe & Paul Walsh, each of whom will speak about an iconic stone structure in Galway. BOOK NOW: 091532460 / [email protected].

📣 We have three exciting lectures coming soon to our 'Surrounded by Stone' gallery: SAT. 7 September, 2pm-4pm. Join archaeologists, Claire Cotter, Christy Cunniffe & Paul Walsh to learn about iconic stone structures in Galway. BOOK NOW: 091 532460 / [email protected]

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