Crawford Art Gallery
Dánlann Crawford
A free national art gallery housed in a former 18th-century customs house, with a collection of Irish paintings and plaster casts of classical sculpture.
The Crawford Art Gallery is next to the Opera House. Its main building was a customs house dating from 1724, later used as an art school and extended with a red-brick facade. The collection covers Irish and European painting and sculpture from the 18th century to the present, including works by Jack B. Yeats, Sean Keating, and other Irish artists. It also holds plaster casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture, made in the early 19th century from originals in the Vatican. Entry is free. It is open roughly 10:00 to 17:00 Monday to Saturday (until 20:00 on Thursdays), and open in the afternoon on Sundays. The museum café is very popular.
Opening hours
Mon-Sat 10:00-17:00; Sun 11:00-16:00
Nearby sights
- English Market
- St Anne's Church, Shandon (Shandon Bells)
- Cork Butter Museum
- Elizabeth Fort
- Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral
- University College Cork
- Fitzgerald's Park
- Cork City Gaol