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Philip Moss: BEARING WITNESS
What does it mean to bear witness?
Open from 1 October to 1 November at the Hunt Museum, Bearing Witness is a powerful new exhibition by acclaimed Irish artist Philip Moss, exploring personal and collective memory, conflict, injustice and the complexities of the human experience.
Moving between the deeply personal and defining moments in modern history, Moss responds to subjects including childhood trauma, institutionalisation, war, displacement, discrimination and political and social upheaval.
Describing himself as a “conceptual artist who chooses to paint,” Moss places the idea – and the questions it provokes – at the heart of his work.
Through painting, Bearing Witness asks us not simply to look, but to consider how we remember, how we respond and why we sometimes turn away from difficult histories.
📍 Hunt Contemporary, Hunt Museum
📅 1 October – 1 November 2026
🎟️ FREE Admission
Discover Bearing Witness at the Hunt Museum this October.
learn more: https://www.huntmuseum.com/whats-on/philip-moss/
01/10/2026
What’s On at the Hunt Museum – October 2026
🔹 Hunt Collection
Tuesday to Saturday: 10am – 5pm Sunday: 11am – 5pm | Closed Monday
EXHIBITIONS
🔹 Philip Moss
BEARING WITNESS
1 October – 1 November 2026Temporary Exhibition Gallery, Hunt Museum
Free admission
Hunt Museum this October 2026. This exhibition brings together a powerful body of work by Moss exploring personal and collective memory, conflict, injustice and the complexities of the human experience.
EVENTS
🔹 Exploring German Artefacts in the Hunt Collection
Saturday, 10 September
11am
Permanent Collection, Hunt Museum
Booking required. General admission.
🔹 Irish Traditional Herbal Remedies
Sunday, 11 October
11am - 1pm
Hunt Museum Garden & Hunt Café
Booking required. €6.50 per person or FREE for Friends of the Hunt Museum
🔹 Shadows of Samhain Halloween
Saturday, 24 to Saturday, 31 October
11am
Permanent Collection, Hunt Museum
General admission Fee. Children under 16 go FREE
🔹 Samhain Twilight Thursday
Storytelling with Daithí Collopy
Thursday, 29 October
5–6pm
Captains’ Room, Hunt Museum
Booking required. €6.50 per person, Children go FREE , Friends of the Hunt Museum go FREE.
These are just a few of the many events happening this month.
Visit huntmuseum.com to learn more!
22/09/2026
🤖 What is the role of a museum in an age of AI?
Join us at the Hunt Museum this Thursday for a fascinating talk exploring the place of museums in an increasingly digital and AI-driven world.
Hosted by the Friends of the Hunt Museum, Dr Robert Kilroy presents The Museum in an Age of AI: The Hunt Museum in a Changing Global Landscape.
As artificial intelligence transforms how we access and understand information, what role can museums play in protecting material truth, safeguarding cultural heritage and creating spaces for meaningful dialogue?
Drawing on the Hunt Museum and its collection, Robert will explore how museums can respond to our changing world, and how institutions deeply connected to the history and culture of cities like Limerick can help tell new stories about contemporary Ireland.
📅 Thursday, 24 September
🕕 6pm
📍 The Captains’ Room, Hunt Museum
🎟️ €10 per person | FREE for Friends of the Hunt Museum
🔗 Booking essential – book via the link: https://www.huntmuseum.com/whats-on/the-museum-in-an-age-of-ai-the-hunt-museum-in-a-changing-global-landscape/
About the speaker: Dr Robert Kilroy is a former Curator for Modern & Contemporary Art at Louvre Abu Dhabi and currently lectures at Limerick School of Art & Design in Art & Design Education, with a focus on Design & AI.
15/09/2026
✨ Culture Night at the Hunt Museum!
Join us this Friday, 18 September for an evening of music, creativity, art and culture! 🎨🎶
Explore the Hunt Collection, get creative with family-friendly arts and crafts, enjoy live performances throughout the Museum and gardens, and take your final opportunity to experience our two summer exhibitions before they close this Sunday:
🔹 Our, Óir, Ore: Four Millennia of Limerick Silver and Gold
🔹 OUR: Conversations with the Collection
Here’s what’s happening:
🔹 Guided Tours of the Hunt Collection
🔹 Make Your Own Gorget – Arts & Crafts Workshop
🔹 The Gramophone Social in the Hunt Café
🔹 The Highlanders Wedding Party with the Polish Arts Festival
🔹 Live music from The Quarter Dozen
🔹 DJ set with Tom The Bomb in the Courtyard
Friday, 18 September
Hunt Museum, Limerick
FREE admission
Come one, come all and celebrate Culture Night at the Hunt Museum, there’s something for everyone to enjoy!
14/09/2026
Monday Musings... 🤔
As the first hints of autumn arrive and September begins to turn golden, this week’s Monday Musing seems particularly fitting…
This small gold drinking cup from the Hunt Collection measures just 8cm in height. Simple and beautifully formed, with a narrow rim turned gently inwards, it is thought to possibly be Classical in origin.
Like so many ancient objects, however, it leaves us with more questions than answers.
Who once held it? What might they have drunk from it? Was it an everyday possession, something treasured, or a cup reserved for special occasions?
Its warm golden surface feels especially at home at this time of year, and it also gives us the perfect opportunity to mark the final few days of Our, Óir, Ore: Four Millennia of Limerick Silver and Gold.
🍁 The exhibition comes to a close this Sunday, 20 September, bringing an end to a summer spent exploring 4,000 years of gold, silver, craftsmanship and the stories held within precious objects.
If you haven’t visited yet, this is your final week to discover it, and if you have, perhaps there’s time for one last golden glimpse before we say goodbye.
✨ Here’s to golden objects, golden leaves and the beginning of a new season.
14/09/2026
Discover the remarkable woman who put Irish fashion on the international stage.
Join us at the Hunt Museum for Becoming Sybil Connolly: A Life in Irish Design, a special evening exploring the life, creativity and enduring legacy of one of Ireland’s most pioneering designers.
From taking America by storm during the golden age of 1950s fashion to championing Irish materials, craftsmanship and design throughout her career, Sybil Connolly was a true trailblazer whose influence extended far beyond fashion.
Independent historian and Sybil Connolly expert Kathleen O’Sullivan will take us through Connolly’s fascinating story, one of ambition, creativity, reinvention and an unwavering belief in Irish design.
Thursday, 17 September
7–8pm
Captains’ Room, Hunt Museum
€6.50 per person
Friends of the Hunt Museum go FREE | Limerick School of Art & Design (LSAD) go FREE
Part of Oícheanta ag Músaem an Hunt | Hunt Museum Nights.
✨ Booking required, secure your place today on huntmuseum.com or via the link: https://www.huntmuseum.com/whats-on/becoming-sybil-connolly-a-life-in-irish-design/
14/09/2026
Can a scent transport you back in time? 🌷
A familiar perfume, a childhood kitchen, the smell of a particular place… our sense of smell has an extraordinary ability to unlock memories we thought we’d forgotten.
Join us at the Hunt Museum for a FREE Scent & Memory Workshop with Tasha Marks of AVM Curiosities®, exploring the fascinating connection between scent, memory and storytelling.
During this relaxed and inspiring workshop, Tasha will guide you through a range of scents designed to spark memories, stories and conversation. There’s no right or wrong way to take part, simply follow your nose and see where it takes you!
🌿 Wednesday, 16 September
11am–12.30pm
Captains’ Room, Hunt Museum
FREE – booking required
Limited places available
The workshop forms part of our upcoming exhibition, Making Scents of the Collection, which will bring a new sensory dimension to objects from the Hunt Collection.
Visitors will be able to experience three specially recreated scents, revealing the stories and histories of objects that once held or carried distinctive aromas.
Making Scents of the Collection is kindly supported by the Heritage Council through its Community Heritage Grant Scheme.
Places for this special workshop are limited, so book yours now and discover where a scent might take you.
Book your place via this link or huntmuseum.com: https://www.huntmuseum.com/whats-on/scent-memory-workshop-at-the-hunt-museum/
11/09/2026
'Around The Table' at the Hunt Museum 🥖
This weekend, take a journey through thousands of years of food, drink and hospitality with our special 'Around The Table' Self-Guided Tour through the Hunt Collection.
Discover what medieval drinking horns, ancient w**e vessels, Limerick-made silver, a Picasso menu card and Neolithic food-processing tools can tell us about the way people have eaten, gathered and shared food throughout history.
And there’s a little something extra waiting for you at the end… 👀
Finish your journey in the Hunt Café, where you’ll receive a special surprise inspired by our upcoming exhibition, 'Making Scents of the Collection'.
Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 September
📍 The Hunt Museum
🎟️ Collect your self-guided trail at Museum Reception
Part of the Linger Limerick Food Festival.
Come hungry for history!
10/09/2026
Join us tomorrow, Friday 11 September, for a special Director’s Tour of OUR: Conversations with the Collection.
Discover the Hunt Collection from a fresh perspective with Hunt Museum Director Teresa Crowley, as she leads a special tour of our current exhibition OUR: Conversations with the Collection.
Bringing historic objects into conversation with contemporary art.
Featuring works by Irish and international artists including Ibrahim Mahama, Qiuwen Lyu, Cecilia Bullo and Guggi, this special tour is an opportunity to hear more about the ideas behind the exhibition and discover some of its fascinating connections.
Friday, 11 September
12–1pm
The Hunt Museum
€5 per person
FREE for Friends of the Hunt Museum & LSAD students
Hosted by the Friends of the Hunt Museum.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Join us tomorrow, Friday 11 September, for a special Director’s Tour of OUR: Conversations with the Collection.
Discover the Hunt Collection from a fresh perspective with Hunt Museum Director Teresa Crowley, as she leads a special tour of our current exhibition OUR: Conversations with the Collection.
Bringing historic objects into conversation with contemporary art.
Featuring works by Irish and international artists including Ibrahim Mahama, Qiuwen Lyu, Cecilia Bullo and Guggi, this special tour is an opportunity to hear more about the ideas behind the exhibition and discover some of its fascinating connections.
Friday, 11 September
12–1pm
The Hunt Museum
€5 per person
FREE for Friends of the Hunt Museum & LSAD students
Hosted by the Friends of the Hunt Museum.
Book your place via the link in our bio or at huntmuseum.com
We look forward to seeing you there!
08/09/2026
Fashion, Place and Identity
What does the place we come from say about who we are?
Join us at the Hunt Museum on Thursday, 10 September for an evening with Irish fashion and textile designer Mary O’Sullivan, exploring the fascinating connections between fashion, place and identity.
As part of Oícheanta ag Músaem an Hunt | Hunt Museum Nights, Mary will share her creative journey and explore how Irish heritage, local identity and a sense of place can be woven into contemporary design.
Mary is the designer behind the iconic Limerick Toile de Jouy, featuring landmarks including King John’s Castle, and the designer of the 2025 Limerick Rose of Tralee gown.
Come along for an engaging evening of conversation, creativity and stories, and discover how fashion can help us express where we come from and who we are.
📅 Thursday, 10 September
⏰ 7–8pm
📍 The Captains’ Room, Hunt Museum
🎟️ €6.50 | Hunt Museum Friends go FREE. Booking required
Come and celebrate Limerick, Irish design and the stories we wear.
Book your place via the link: https://www.huntmuseum.com/whats-on/fashion-place-and-identity/
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