Crawford Art Gallery

Crawford Art Gallery
Gailearaí Ealaíne De Cráfort

Location within Ireland
Established	1979
Coordinates	51°54′00″N 8°28′24″W / 51.899863°N 8.473284°W / 51.899863; -8.473284
Public transit access	Cork Kent railway station

Crawford Art Gallery is a National Cultural Institution public art gallery located in the heart of the city of Cork, Ireland. The Crawford Art Gallery is dedicated to historic and contemporary art, and welcomes over 200,000 visitors a year.

Since 1979 the Gallery has been located in the centre of Cork in what used to be the Cork Customs House, built in 1724. The building was substantially extended in 2000 and is now a striking composition of Georgian poise and modern elegance.

There is a permanent collection of European and Irish art along with a collection of casts of classical Greek and Roman statues cast by Antonio Canova and brought to Cork from the Vatican in 1818. The Royal Cork Institution acquired these from the Society of Fine Arts in Cork who were given them by the Prince Regent later George IV. He in turn had received them from Pope Pius VII who had commissioned Antonio Canova to make a set of plasters from statues in the Vatican.

The Gallery also hosts temporary and travelling exhibitions and has education and outreach programmes.

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Munster	Allihies Copper Mine Museum Clare Museum Cobh Heritage Centre Connemara Heritage and History Centre Cork Butter Museum Cork Public Museum Craggaunowen Crawford Art Gallery Hunt Museum Kerry County Museum Waterford County Museum Waterford Museum of Treasures

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Ulster	Cavan County Museum Donegal County Museum Donegal Railway Centre Monaghan County Museum

Cork City

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Culture

Events	Cork Jazz Festival Cork Film Festival Cork International Choral Festival Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award Live at the Marquee SoundEye Festival

Venues	Cork Opera House Cork Public Museum Crawford Municipal Art Gallery Everyman Palace Theatre Lewis Glucksman Gallery

Education

Third level	Cork College of Commerce Cork Institute of Technology Griffith College Cork St. John's Central College University College Cork

Secondary	Bishopstown Community School Christian Brothers College Coláiste Chríost Rí Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa Douglas Community School North Monastery Mount Mercy College Presentation Brothers College Hamblin and Porter's Grammar School

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Print	Cork Independent Evening Echo Irish Examiner

Radio	Cork's 96FM Red FM

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Coordinates: 51°54′04″N 8°28′24″W / 51.9010°N 8.4734°W / 51.9010; -8.4734

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Crawford Art Gallery

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