Press Release - March 2007
Yeats Museum moves to new space at National Gallery.
-reopens 28 March 2007-

The Yeats Museum has moved from the Dargan Wing, where it has been housed since 1999, to a new, specially renovated gallery space in the Beit Wing of the National Gallery of Ireland. The museum reopens to the public on Wednesday 28th March 2007.

Featuring a fresh presentation of the work of Ireland's most renowned 20th century artist, Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957), the museum comprises the artist's oil paintings, as well as a selection of his watercolours and drawings. The new gallery space, smaller in dimension than that of the Dargan Wing, provides a more sympathetic scale for the Gallery's exceptional holding of the artist's work.

The conversion and refurbishment of the gallery space in the Beit Wing was carried out by the Office of Public Works.

Yeats Museum (Beit Wing). Open during Gallery hours: Mon-Sat 9.30am-5.30; Thur to 8.30pm; Sun. 12pm-5.30pm. Closed Good Friday (6 April 2007)

For further information & images, contact:
Valerie Keogh
Press & Communications Office
National Gallery of Ireland
Tel. 01-661 5133
Email press@ngi.ie

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