…because every artwork starts with a blank canvas
From Nov 25
Crawford Art Gallery is launching a series of free, behind-the-scenes tours, offering the public an unprecedented opportunity to experience the currently closed venue from an all new perspective - completely empty, with the National collection of artworks removed and the walls laid bare.
From personal anecdotes to insights into the historic building, these tours are a unique opportunity to witness Crawford in this fleeting moment before its major redevelopment ‘Transforming Crawford Art Gallery’. The team will delve into the gallery’s past, present and future, showing visitors a sneak peak of what to expect when the gallery reopens.
This is once in a lifetime opportunity to experience the Crawford Art Gallery before the National Cultural Institution’s much-anticipated restoration. Because every artwork starts with a blank canvas.
Tour Details:
The Crawford Uncovered tours will take 60-80 minutes.
Preserving Legacy: Enhancing Conservation at Crawford Art Gallery (Online)
1pm Wednesday 20 August 2025
Online via Zoom
Spotlight on a national treasure!
Members of the public are invited to attend an online talk during Heritage Week that will focus on the conservation of a true national treasure.
The Goose Girl (1888) is a much loved oil painting by Edith Somerville in the collection of Crawford Art Gallery.
The Goose Girl is now the subject of conservation treatment while the doors of Crawford Art Gallery are closed for its major redevelopment. Supported by the Heritage Council through the Heritage Stewardship Fund 2025, this crucial work will ensure the historic painting’s future.
This public talk will shed new light on the painting, exploring its history and the steps being taken to care for it in Crawford Art Gallery’s new mobile conservation laboratory. This talk will feature three speakers: conservator Chiara Chillè, registrar Jean O’Donovan, and curator Michael Waldron.
This initiative underscores Crawford Art Gallery’s commitment to best-practice heritage care, adhering to a principle of minimal intervention—carrying out only those treatments necessary to stabilise and preserve the original condition of an artwork.
Click here to register for the online talk.
Preserving Legacy: Enhancing Conservation at Crawford Art Gallery (in-person)
1pm Tuesday 19 August 2025
In-person at Civic Trust House, 50 Pope’s Quay, Cork, T23 R6XC
Spotlight on a national treasure!
Members of the public are invited to attend our in-person talk during Heritage Week that will focus on the conservation of a true national treasure.
The Goose Girl (1888) is a much loved oil painting by Edith Somerville in the collection of Crawford Art Gallery.
The Goose Girl is now the subject of conservation treatment while the doors of Crawford Art Gallery are closed for its major redevelopment. Supported by the Heritage Council through the Heritage Stewardship Fund 2025, this crucial work will ensure the historic painting’s future.
This public talk will shed new light on the painting, exploring its history and the steps being taken to care for it in Crawford Art Gallery’s new mobile conservation laboratory. This talk will feature three speakers: conservator Chiara Chillè, registrar Jean O’Donovan, and curator Michael Waldron.
This initiative underscores Crawford Art Gallery’s commitment to best-practice heritage care, adhering to a principle of minimal intervention—carrying out only those treatments necessary to stabilise and preserve the original condition of an artwork.
