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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND - COUNTRY LIFE
TURLOUGH PARK, CASTLEBAR, CO. MAYO
PUBLIC PROGRAMME 01 JULY- 30 AUGUST 2014
Contents:
* Events to book & Events to look out for * Programme of events *Temporary Exhibitions
* Museum Shop & Café * Memory Book Project * On-line Resources
* Other Details
01. EVENTS TO BOOK & EVENTS TO LOOK OUT FOR
Book your places on these events: Tel: 094 903 1751; educationtph@museum.ie
You are required to book your places on some events - see details below. Of particular interest to younger Museum visitors will be our Summer camp from 22-25 July and our Kidz Museum event on 25 July. And not forgetting the adults - make sure to enter our Six Word Story Competition which runs during August. This is just a sample of what we have on offer in the Museum during July & August - full details of these and other events are listed below.
02. PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
Visit www.ouririshheritage.org to find out about local Irish history & heritage and to contribute photos and stories about your locality.
Sunday 29th June:
3.00pm-4.00pm. Workshop. Kidz Museum: Unbeweavable! Discover some of the woven objects in the Museum like lobster pots, baskets, clothes and hens nests. Then weave your own masterpiece from natural materials. Booking required.
1st - 31st July:
My Favourite Object Competition. Select your favourite artefact from the folklife collection then simply complete one of our ‘My Favourite Object' activity sheets. Prizes for the best filled out activity sheet - available in English and Irish language.
Children 7-12 Years. No Booking required.
Friday 4th July:
11am - 1pm Drop-in Activity. Knitting: Not Just For Nanas! Make your own summertime knits and crochet. Start a new project or get help finishing an old one! Learn a new skill for life. Holiday makers and beginners welcome! Adults & Children 7yrs+. No booking required.
Saturday 5th July:
3pm - 5pm Drop-in Activity. Music Circle. Dust down that fiddle, polish that whistle and join the music circle to practice, share, play tunes and songs. Special teaching session with Emer Mayock. Adults. No booking required.
Saturday 12th July:
11.30am-1.00pm. Drop in Activity. Mayo Genealogy Group. If you have an interest in finding out about your family history come along for free practical tips with the Mayo Genealogy Group. Adult. No booking required. New researchers welcome.
Saturday 12th July:
2.00pm-3.00pm. Talk. Pinpoint Your Origins With DNA Testing. Gael, Viking, Norman, Gallowglass or Planter? Join biotechnologist Dr Tyrone Bowes of Irish Origenes as he discusses how DNA testing can reveal unique information about your ancestry, and explores some Mayo case studies. Adult. Booking required.
Wednesday 16th July:
3-4pm. Talk. Material Culture of Indigenous Australia
Join Jilda Andrews, National Museum of Australia, for a fascinating insight into the continuities, adaptations, inventions and responses to 226 years of European contact, as reflected through Australia's Indigenous material culture. Adults and children 7yr+. Booking required.
Thursday 17th July:
2-3pm. Tour Walk The Beat
Hear the stories behind the objects on a tour of 'Preserving the Peace' with the exhibition's curator Noel Campbell. Adults and children 7yrs+. Booking required.
Friday 18th July:
11am-1pm. Drop-in Activity. Knitting: Not Just For Nanas!
Make your own summer-time knits and crochet. Start a new project or get help finishing an old one! Learn a new skill for life. Holiday makers and beginners welcome. Adults and children 7yrs+. No booking required.
Tuesday 22nd to Friday 25th July: SUMMER CAMP
2-4.30pm. Workshop. Mâché Model Magic
This four-day summer camp explores how people lived in the past: what they wore, what type of work they did and what they did for fun. Make paper mâché figures of your own characters, give them a name, a job, and something fun to do, and we'll create everything they need! 7-12yrs. Booking required.
Friday 25th July:
11am-12noon. Workshop. Kidz Museum: Junior Detective!
Put on your detective's cap and join this interactive workshop. Discover old objects in the galleries and how they were used long ago. 6yrs and under accompanied by an adult. Booking required.
Saturday 26th July:
11.30am-3pm. Demonstration. Connacht Textile Crafters: A Flower Wreath in Felt
Making a 'Summer Flower Wreath'; a lovely décor idea to use up leftover yarns and bits of felt. Demonstrations throughout the day with Susan Basler. Adults and Children 7yrs+. No booking required.
Friday 1st to Sunday 31st August:
During opening hours. Temporary Exhibition. Preserving The Peace
From gallows, shillelagh and manacles to the hangman's rope, this exhibition commemorates two hundred years of law and order through objects relating to policing, crime, prisons and punishment and highlights the sometimes uncomfortable reality of Ireland's official past. All ages.
Friday 1st to Sunday 31st August:
During opening hours. Drop-in Activity. My Favourite Object Competition
Select your favourite artefact from the Folklife Collection then simply complete one of our 'My Favourite Object' activity sheets. Prizes for the best filled out activity sheet - available in English and Irish language. 7-12yrs.
Friday 1st to Sunday 31st August:
During opening hours. Drop-in Activity. Six Word Story Competition.
Choose your favourite object and write a story about it in just six words. Entries will be judged by Irish Independent Editor, Katie Byrne and published in the Weekend Magazine. Pick up your entry form at reception! Adults.
Friday 1st August:
11am-1pm. Drop-in Activity. Knitting: Not Just For Nanas!
Make your own summer-time knits and crochet. Start a new project or get help finishing an old one! Learn a new skill for life. Holiday makers and beginners welcome. Adults and children 7yrs+. No booking required.
Saturday 2nd August:
3-5pm. Drop-in Activity. Music Circle.
Dust down that fiddle, polish that whistle and join the Music Circle to practice, share, play tunes and songs. Adults. No booking required.
Saturday 9th August:
11.30am-1pm. Drop-in Activity. Mayo Genealogy Group.
If you have an interest in finding out about your family history come along for free practical tips with the Mayo Genealogy Group. No booking required. Adults. New researchers welcome.
Saturday 9th August:
2-3pm. Drop-in Activity. Find Your World War Ancestors.
Join the Mayo Genealogy Group to learn how to find your military ancestors that enlisted and fought in the Great War. Adults. No booking required.
Friday 15th August:
11am-1pm. Drop-in Activity. Knitting: Not Just For Nanas!
Make your own summer-time knits and crochet. Start a new project or get help finishing an old one! Learn a new skill for life. Holiday makers and beginners welcome. Adults and children 7yrs+. No booking required.
Sunday 17th August:
3-4.30pm. Talk. The Crazy Life of Birds
What has a dinosaur and chicken got in common? How do birds sleep while flying? What is the size of the smallest birds egg in the world? Guess how much a robin weighs? Join us for birdy facts and fun led by Mick Hogan, Marine and Countryside Guide. Adults and children 7yrs+. Booking required.
Saturday 23rd August:
3-4pm. Performance. Heritage Week: Remember Delia Murphy in Story and Song
The songs, story and family pictures of the iconic Delia Murphy of 'The Spinning Wheel' fame. Presented and performed by Delia's niece Carmen Cullen. With musical accompaniment by Gerry Anderson and a reading from Carmen's new novel 'Two Sisters Singing', sets the scene of 1940's Ireland. Adults. Booking required.
Saturday 30th August:
12-5pm. Open Day Heritage Week: Hoof It! Annual Donkey Day
The team from 'The Donkey Sanctuary'; 'Saturdayhya Sai', Sligo and 'The Mayo Donkey Sanctuary', Kiltimagh are back! Come along, meet the donkeys and watch hoof trimming and feeding demonstrations. Lots to do and see for all of the family. Family. No booking required.
03. TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
Preserving the Peace: Policing on the Island of Ireland: 1814-2014
The Peace Preservation Act of 1814 allowed for the creation of the Peace Preservation Force which is seen by many as the precursor to the establishment of the Irish Constabulary and of the modern police services on the island of Ireland. To mark this bicentenary, the National Museum of Ireland-Country Life, Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co. Mayo has opened Preserving the Peace: Policing on the Island of Ireland: 1814-2014, a major new exhibition dedicated to Irish policing on 14 June 2014. The exhibition will run until Easter 2015 and forms part of the National Museum of Ireland's Decade of Commemorations calendar of events. The exhibition focuses on organised policing over two hundred years on the island, exploring the degree to which standard policing has metamorphosed or remained static against the backdrop of British and Irish rule. A comprehensive public programme will run as part of the exhibition - see the exhibition website for further details.
Other exhibitions include:
· 100 OBJECTS MUSEUM TRAIL
In a partnership between the National Museum of Ireland (NMI), the Irish Times and the Royal Irish Academy, 100 objects have been chosen by journalist Fintan O'Toole to take us through the history of people in Ireland over 7,000 years. 4 of these objects can be seen in the NMI-Country Life, Turlough Park.
· No. 81 EMPTY COOKING POT, 1845-9
· No. 82 EMIGRANT'S TEAPOT, 1850-1950.
· No. 93 BOYNE CORACLE, 1928
· No. 95 EMIGRANT'S SUITCASE, 1950s.
No. 66 CRUCIFIXION STONE, 1740 & No. 77 WICKER CRADLE, 19th & 20th Centuries are also from the NMI-Country Life's Folklife collection and are based in NMI-Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks, Dublin.
Further details can be found on:
http://www.museum.ie/en/list/history-of-ireland-in-100-objects.aspx and on http://www.100objects.ie/
Visit http://www.museum.ie/en/exhibition-list/country-life-temporary-exhibitions.aspx for details about temporary exhibitions which are ongoing in the Museum Galleries
CAFÉ ART PROJECT : On Wings
A new exhibition showcasing a variety of textile work - handmade birds, felted work and silk hangings - by the Rural Training Centre will run in the Museum Café extension during July and August.
04. MUSEUM SHOP & CAFÉ
Museum Shop: Broad range of specialist books and Museum-branded and handcrafted gifts to suit all budgets. Further details from the Museum Shop: 094 90 31767 or E-mail: shoptp@museum.ie
Museum Café: See above for details of Café vacancies. Visit the Museum Café for a wide variety of tasty and seasonal meals and snacks. Enjoy our freshly baked produce and speciality teas and coffees; the perfect complement to your museum visit. For queries and bookings contact the Museum Café: 094 928 9972 or E-mail: maeve@brambles.ie
05. MEMORY BOOK PROJECT
Your Stories - Our Histories: Memory Book Project
During your Museum visit, please take a seat at our Memory Book to record personal memories and stories related to the objects and exhibitions you have encountered in the Museum. The Memory Book form can be downloaded and returned to the Museum. This form can be completed even if you haven't been to the Museum yet as we would still like to hear your memories relating to Irish country life.
06. ON-LINE RESOURCES
Blog by the Museum's Documentation Department
The Documentation Department in the National Museum of Ireland - Country Life have launched a blog as a spin off from the Museum's Inventory Project - http://turloughparkhouse.wordpress.com/. Visit this blog to get some information on objects in the Museum's collection.
Website for local heritage
www.ouririshheritage.org features articles on local history and heritage from around the country. Anyone with an interest in their local area can contribute to this website which, it is hoped, will eventually reflect the local history of the island of Ireland. Groups and organisations are welcome to promote their cultural and heritage events via the online events form.
07. GENERAL INFORMATION
Visit http://www.museum.ie/en/list/calendar-of-events.aspx for details of the current programme of events.
Contact tpark@museum.ie if you would like to join the Museum's e-mail distribution list.
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and Twitter: https://twitter.com/NMIreland.
08. MUSEUM OPENING TIMES
Museum: Tuesday-Saturday: 10am - 5pm Sunday: 2-5pm. Closed Mondays (incl. Bank Holiday).
Museum Shop & Café: open during Museum hours with extended opening from 12pm each Sunday.
09. CONTACT DETAILS
GENERAL INFORMATION: Museum Reception: 094 903 1755
MUSEUM CAFÉ: 094 928 9972; e-mail: maeve@brambles.ie
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Kind regards, Bernie
Bernie Byron
Marketing Executive
National Museum of Ireland - Country Life
Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland
Tel: +353 94 903 1773; Mob: +353 87 798 7439
Email: bbyron@museum.ie; www.museum.ie
Admission Free. Closed Mondays.
How to find us: GPS Co-ordinates: 53.883986, -9.212476
Public Programmes & Temporary Exhibitions: visit www.museum.ie/events
Temporary Exhibition: Preserving the Peace: Policing on the Island of Ireland 1814-2014. Running until April 2015.
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