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Join us for a guided tour of the Classical Museum, and an introduction to the fascinating collection with Museum Curator, Dr Joanna Day, as well as to the contemporary fine art print works currently in situ, created by Hungarian-British artist, Zsuzsanna Ardó.
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.
Admission free; early booking recommended as places are limited.
Classical Museum,
School of Classics
Room K216, Newman Building
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
Dr Joanna Day is Curator of the Classical Museum, University College Dublin and Assistant Professor in Greek Archaeology. 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.
Zsuzsanna Ardó is an award-winning, interdisciplinary visual artist and writer. Her work has received awards from organisations including Arts Council England, High Arctic Expedition, Arts Students League, New York, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany, Il Bisonte Florence, Italy, Design Centre Boibouchet, France, Britten Pears Arts, UK, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland and UNESCO. Her work has been exhibited internationally in mainstream and alternative spaces, from the British Film Academy, Westminster Palace, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Royal Institution, India International Centre Delhi, Google HQ NY, Artists’ Gallery Skopje, N. Macedonia, National Museum Slovenia, National Creativity Centre, Malta, European Commission, European Parliament to the Arctic and the Antarctic.
