Free entry to temporary exhibitions or free guidebook (when no exhibitions are available)

The National Gallery of Ireland collection contains over 15,000 artworks, representing every major European School of painting through watercolours, drawings, prints and sculpture. With works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Caravaggio and Goya, the National Gallery of Ireland also houses a renowned collection of Irish paintings dating from the 17th century to the 20th centuries, including works by Jack B. Yeats.

Dublin Pass holders can enjoy free entry to temporary exhibitions, and when no exhibitions are available, visitors will recieve a free National Gallery of Ireland Guidebook.

If no ticketed exhibition is taking place, please collect your National Gallery of Ireland Guidebook from the Gallery Shop.

Highlights:

• Collections of painting and sculpture dating from 13th – 20th century

• Summer Leonardo drawings exhibition

• Vermeer and the Master of Genre Painting exhibition 

Did you know

- Founder of the gallery, William Dargan, built the first railway in Ireland

- Nathaniel Hone’s ‘The Conjuror’ was the subject of the first ever one-man show in the British Isles

- Rembrandt opened his own studio when he was just 19!

Exhibitions:

Dublin Pass users are entitled to one complimentary ticket in to this exhibition. To avoid disappointment we suggest users pre-book ahead of visiting the Gallery - www.nationalgallery.ie  Collect prebooked tickets at exhibition desk where your Dublin Pass card will be scanned.

Emil Nolde: Colour is Life (14  February  - 10 June 2018)

The first exhibition to showcase the work of this important artist in Ireland for over fifty years. A bold and colourful survey of paintings, drawings, etchings, and woodcuts by the German Expressionist master Emil Nolde. Includes scenes of Berlin café culture, calligraphic views of the River Elbe, brilliant studies made on travels to the South Seas, portraits, flower paintings, and imaginative depictions of fantastical creatures in both oils and watercolours. All works are on loan from the Nolde Foundation Seebüll, Germany.

Between Paris and Pont-Aven: Roderic O'Conor and the Moderns(18 July - 28 October 2018)

This will be the first museum show in over thirty years to focus on the painted and graphic work of the Irish artist Roderic O’Conor (1860-1940). The exhibition demonstrates O’Conor’s highly original contribution to the experimentation that revolutionised art in Europe in the late nineteenth century, a period when O’Conor was in direct contact with Paul Gauguin and Theo van Gogh, art dealer and brother of Vincent. By grafting expressive parallel lines or ‘Stripes’ onto his subjects from 1892, O’Conor adapted a feature of Van Gogh’s late landscapes and in turn inspired several of his Pont-Aven colleagues to follow his lead. A unique opportunity to examine the evolution of his signature expressionist style and to place his work side-by-side with that of the artists with whom he connected and collaborated, including Van Gogh, Gauguin, Armand Seguin, Robert Befan, and particularly Cuno Amiet.

Commencing 5 December 2018:

Canaletto and the Art of Venice

Dublin Pass users are entitled to one complimentary ticket in to exhibitions. To avoid disappointment we suggest users pre-book ahead of visiting the Gallery - www.nationalgallery.ie  Collect prebooked tickets at exhibition desk where your Dublin Pass card will be scanned.

How to get there:

Bus: 4, 7, 8 to Merrion Square North & Clare Street, 39A to Merrion Row, 46A to Dawson Street & Nassau Street

LUAS: Green Line to St Stephen's Green

see the: full list of attractions included

Closed: Good Friday, 24th, 25th and 26th December

Attractions nearby

National Museum of Ireland - Archaeology View attraction » National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts & History View attraction » The Little Museum of Dublin View attraction »