Online Art Appreciation Courses in 2022

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Visiting with kids

Activities and ideas for kids and young people visiting the Natio

Jack B. Yeats: Painting & Memory Schools Competition

Enter our new schools competition before 17 December.

The Artist and her Studio

Discover Lavinia Fontana's painting techniques and pigments.

Lavinia Fontana Conservation and Research Project

Shining a light on a Renaissance artist.

Podcast: Something From There

A podcast produced in tandem with our Something From There projec

National Gallery at Home: Collage Costumes

Video: Make an expressive collage self-portrait.

Creative Challenge for Kids: Cityscapes and Landscapes

Video: Make a collage cityscape or landscape using materials salv

Podcast: Brian O'Doherty's life and work

A discussion of the artist's life and work, with Dr Brenda Moore-

Remembering the Gallery's history: plaster casts

For International Sculpture Day, we look at the history of the Ga

George Wallace: Talking Heads

Curator Anne Hodge discusses Wallace's printed heads

Through a Lens tour: Costumes in Art

A self-guided tour of works in our collection

Creative Commons: downloadable artworks

Download and use 1000 high-resolution images from our collection

Podcasts: Mondrian

A new podcast looking at Piet Mondrian's relationship to music is

The Wonder of Weeds

Discover the mysterious and surprising qualities of plants

Re-telling the Prodigal Story

Outreach project focused on re-telling the story of the Prodigal

Special Project: Music for Mondrian

A new podcast looking at Piet Mondrian's relationship to music is

Stephen James Smith: As Light Between our Bodies Moves

A poem inspired by Caravaggio's painting

Scenes from the Life of Saint Patrick

Explore the dramatic life of Ireland's patron saint

Audio Tour for Kids & Families: An Artist's Adventure

Look, listen and learn about art with audio designed for kids

Art & Mindfulness: Powerscourt Waterfall

A guided mindfulness video for primary schools

The Joy of Collecting

Blog: Artist Vita Ryan explores the idea of collecting.

Irish Women Artists from the Archives

Discover the stories of Irish artists

Saint Patrick: some namesakes around Ireland

Illustrations from a rare book in our collection

Yanny Petters, The Plants We Played With.

A recent acquisition to the Gallery's collection

OUTing the Past: The International Festival of LGBTI+ History

22-28 March 2021, online.

Artists’ Voices: Life in a Pandemic

Podcast series of conversations with artists during the first loc

Sketchbooks at the Gallery: Bea Orpen

An introduction to Bea Orpen and her fascinating sketchbooks.

Caravaggio: Celebrating a Masterpiece

Discover the remarkable history of Caravaggio's Taking of Christ

National Gallery at Home: Self-Portraits

Video: Draw a colourful self-portrait.

Meet the Staff: Mathilde Renauld, Conservator

Meet the people behind the Gallery!

Mothers

Celebrating mothers, grandmothers and mother figures in art

Meet the winners of the Zurich Young Portrait Prize 2020

Video: The five winners of this year's prize introduce themselves

Dementia inclusive in-home resource

For people with dementia and their carers to enjoy art at home

Literary and mythological characters

Discover artworks populated with characters from writing

Through a Lens tour: Babies & Toddlers

An online self-guided tour to engage babies and toddlers

Sketchbooks at the National Gallery of Ireland: Part Two

A look at the sketches of Walter Osborne and F.W. Burton

Through a Lens tour: Chinese Lunar New Year Festival

A self-guided tour of the collection, in Mandarin and English

Video: George Bernard Shaw and the Gallery

Watch a video of archivist Leah Benson talking about Shaw and th

National Gallery at Home: Mondrian's Windmills

Make your own mini windmill inspired by Mondrian's paintings

In Focus: the flâneur

Linking the collection with art historical, theoretical or philos

Podcast: Imagining France – artist colonies

Artist Una Sealy speaks with Mick O'Dea, President of the RHA.

Through a Lens tour: Mental Health in Art

An online self-guided tour

Discussing the work of Piet Mondrian

A dementia inclusive resource

Drawing Inspiration

Exploring some drawings in the collection

Five things to know about George Bernard Shaw

Discover some interesting facts about the man at the centre of ou

Lavinia Fontana Conservation and Research Project

Shining a light on a Renaissance artist.

Through a Lens tour: Mental Health in Art

An online self-guided tour

National Gallery at Home: Van Gogh

Video: Draw your own picture-perfect window view inspired by Van

Apollo Project: Artistic Licence Activity

Why not use artistic licence to reimagine a work from the Gallery

National Gallery at Home: A Colour Experiment!

Video: Try out this creative activity inspired by Turner's waterc

Through a Lens tour: Family Favourites

An online self-guided tour for visitors with young children

In Focus: The Emancipated Spectator

Connecting the collection to art historical, theoretical or philo

National Gallery at Home: Profile Portraits

Video: Create your own profile portrait at home!

Sketchbooks at the National Gallery of Ireland: Part One

Discover sketches by Maria Spilsbury Taylor & John Butler Yeats

Nature from the Archives

Learn about Irish artists who illustrated nature

National Gallery at Home: Shades on!

Video: Make a collage inspired by Sir John Lavery's painting Her

Sensory Workshop: Create your own 'stained glass'!

Try out this exciting step-by-step activity

National Gallery at Home: Gerard Dillon

Video: Create a collage and crayon drawing

Colouring in the Collection

Download and colour in some works from the national collection

World Book Day

Explore portraits of writers in our collection

Drawing Activity: Shapes and Spatial Relations

Develop your observational skills and explore spatial relations,

Bram Stoker Festival: Warmbloods audio tour

A darkly comedic audio tour of the Gallery by improv duo Underth

Explore the Renaissance with Cozimo

Learn about this fascinating period in art history

National Gallery at Home: Family Field Explorers

Video: Make a field explorer notebook to record the things you se

Finding Power, by Joe Caslin

Read about the installation in our courtyard.

Caravaggio: A masterpiece revealed

Unveiling The Taking of Christ to the Irish public

Interior Lives

Exploring domestic scenes in the collection

National Gallery at Home: Make your own camera obscura!

Video: Follow along to create your own camera obscura! 

One Nation Indivisible: a dark moment in history

Find out the story behind this Dorothea Lange photograph, which i

Podcast: Reflecting on George Wallace's Life

Hear the artist's son share personal memories with curator Anne H

National Gallery at Home: Create your own Monet-inspired drawing and collage!

Video: Create a mixed-media landscape picture.

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, by Perugino

This painting underwent major conservation treatment in 2014-15.

In Focus: Cubism

Connecting the collection to art historical, theoretical or philo

Five things to know about J.M.W. Turner's watercolours

Some interesting nuggets of information about J.M.W. Turner

Recording a Refurbishment

Fascinating objects uncovered during the Gallery's renovation

National Gallery at Home: Create your own birds of a feather!

Video: Make a feathery collage inspired by Edward Murphy's painti

Eco awareness at the National Gallery of Ireland

Eco initiatives at the National Gallery of Ireland

Courage

Other Voices presents Courage from the Shaw Room of the Gallery

Moment in Time: Reading the exhibition

A reading list of American literature and poetry.

Homan Potterton

We're deeply saddened to learn of the death of our former Directo

In Focus: Summer Shadows, Summer Dreams

Connecting the collection to art historical, theoretical or philo

A photograph can tell a powerful story

How Lewis Wickes Hine's photographs helped abolish child labour.

What is a Portrait?

Discover the potential of portraiture!

Through a Lens: Family Architecture

A special tour for Open House 2020

Meet the Staff: Mary Dowling, Friends Retention Co-ordinator

Our new online feature introducing the people behind the Gallery

A rare daguerreotype

Portrait of Daniel O'Connell.

OUTing the Past: The Festival of LGBT History 2019

In 2019, the National Gallery of Ireland was delighted to bring O

National Gallery at Home: Wearable Viewfinder

Follow this step-by-step activity to create your own wearable vie

The Island, A Prospect - a poem by Paula Meehan

A poem by Paula Meehan, written in response to the exhibition Sha

Bauhaus and Entartete Kunst

Artists persecuted by the Nazis

Apollo Project: Masterclass with Nick Roche

Learn about storyboarding from comic-book artist Nick Roche.

Conservation and Research Projects

Dedicated to caring for and safeguarding the collections

Meet the Staff: Sarah McAuliffe, Curatorial Fellow

Our new online feature introducing the people behind the Gallery

Shaping Ireland: Visualising the Anthropocene

The first in a series of short texts exploring themes from the ex

The Colour of Ireland

If the glossy green of Ireland is the result of man-made chemical

In Focus: the sublime in art

Linking the collection with art historical, theoretical or philos

Lights Out: Ireland and Mass Extinction

Since the arrival of humans in Ireland the extinction of around

Five things to know \ Bauhaus 100: The Print Portfolios

Five quick facts about our Bauhaus exhibition

Inspiration and Rivalry: After Vermeer

Remembering this project, three years on

Community Partner Exhibition: EVE Castleview

A special display of artwork created as part of a community partn

Yeats Archive

Collections related to Jack B. Yeats and members of his family

Inishbofin Community Art Project

Creating textile art in response to 'Shaping Ireland: Landscapes

Explainer: Who were the Irish painter-etchers?

Five quick facts about our past exhibition 'Making their Mark: Ir

Moments in Time Podcast Series

A series of podcasts produced to accompany our 2019 exhibition Mo

The Much More Magnificent Seven

A special collaboration between the Gallery, LauraLynn Children's

How to make a patterned cape

Follow this step-by-step video to make a Sorolla-inspired cape.

Entartete Kunst \ Degenerate Art

From 1937, the National Socialist Party confiscated modernist art

Journey of a conservator: working on our Guercino in the Getty

A behind-the-scenes look at Gallery conservator Maria Canavan's t

National Gallery at Home: Framing the World

Follow this step-by-step activity to create a Mondrian-inspired p

Meet the Staff: Sarah Thomas, Corporate Engagement and Events Manager

Our new online feature introducing the people behind the Gallery

Resources for Schools \ Acmhainní do Scoileanna

Downloadable resources for students and teachers

Discussing prints by Irish-Canadian artist George Wallace

A dementia inclusive in-home resource

Podcast: Imagining France – artist as profession and legacy

Dr Brendan Rooney talks to artist Cian McLoughlin.

Canaletto and his art, in a nutshell

Get to know the eighteenth-century painter of iconic views of Ven

National Gallery of Ireland at Home: Sensory Spots

Use food to create your own paint and a spotty masterpiece.

Everyday Bauhaus \ Bauhaus 100: The Print Portfolios

The influence of Bauhaus is all around us

Podcasts: The Island, A Prospect \ Slieve Donard, Mourne Mountains, Co. Down

With Dara McAnulty, autistic naturalist and environmental campaig

Aidan Crotty | Winner, Zurich Portrait Prize 2020

Video: Artist Aidan Crotty offers us a glimpse behind the scenes

Me aul flower

Inspired by Dublin's Bloom Festival, we took a look at some of ou

Five things to know about Murillo: The Prodigal Son Restored

Five interesting stories about our new exhibition

Podcasts: The Island, A Prospect

Listen back to our podcasts about Ireland and art

Writer Ian Maleney and Shaping Ireland

Writer Ian Maleny's debut book, Minor Monuments

National Gallery at Home: Baby Botany

Video: An activity for parents/guardians to explore with young ba

Video: Irish Botanical Art

An illustrated talk by the librarian at the National Botanic Gard

National Gallery at Home: Gerard Dillon

Video: Create a collage and crayon drawing

Earth Day

A selection of posts, activities and podcasts with a focus on the

Culture Night 2021 at the National Gallery of Ireland

Join us onsite and online for Culture Night 2021

Podcast: Queer Mind, Body and Soul

Listen to episode 2 featuring artists from the exhibition Queer M

Dublin: James Joyce and Erich Hartmann

Photographer Erich Hartmann was inspired by James Joyce's Ulysses

Bloomsday

To celebrate Bloomsday, we look at a few Joycean highlights from

National Gallery at Home: Discovery box for babies

Video: Engage your baby's senses with this activity box.

Through a Lens tour: LGBTQIA+

An online self-guided tour.

Creative Challenge for Kids: Make an engraving!

Video: Try making your own engraving using a milk carton!