Art History Festival 2024 – Northern Ireland

Join Lesley Simpson, former Keeper of Collections at Down County Museum, for this talk which will showcase a selection from the wide range of works in the Museum’s fine art collection. All have a local, County Down connection but include paintings and prints of landscapes, both urban and rural, portraits and abstracts as well as sculptural pieces. Lesley will explain how and why individual works were collected, their significance and how they relate to other parts of the museum’s collection. 

Join us for a guided tour of museum artworks from the Northern Ireland War Memorial’s collection. Featuring the work of several celebrated local artists, the tour will explore the theme of Art History: Local to Global, looking at artworks as representations of the experience of the Second World War in Northern Ireland and further afield.