Where to start? – Tips For The First Time Visitors to Dublin Culture Night

Is this your first time attending Culture Night in Dublin? Heard great things, have a few places in mind, but don’t know where to start?

Here are a few sneak previews of venues taking part this year. You can take a virtual tour, and meet some of the people, without leaving your hall door!

Dublin Culture Trail has ‘behind the scenes’ tours of some of Dublin’s most memorable cultural venues.

Click on one of the links below to discover what’s inside some of these venues before you head out on Culture Night.

A free i-Phone app for Dublin Culture Trail is also available so you can keep it with you on the night, and use its interactive map to navigate your way around the city. Simply click this link to downlod the app, or scan the QR code below with your iPhone.

Irish Museum of Modern Art
Open from 3pm on Culture Night, IMMA is Ireland’s leading national institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art. Join us on Culture Night for Exhibitions, Tours, Open Artist, Studios, Music, Bar.

Take a look behind the scenes at IMMA. Open Video>

Chester Beatty Library
Culture Night will be one of your very last chances to see  The Art Books of Henri Matisse exhibition which closes on Sunday 25 September. Join us at 3pm for family activity packs or 6pm for our Arab Jazz Night with Sami Moukaddem and his band. Free guided tours at 7pm, 8pm or 9pm. Silk Road Café and Gift & Book Shop open. No booking required for these events.

Take a look behind the scenes at Chester Beatty Library Open Video>

James Joyce Centre
Located in a beautifully restored Georgian townhouse, video documentaries, touch-screen computer installations and more will bring you closer to one of Ireland’s greatest modern writers. At 6.30pm and again at 8pm renowned lyric tenor Noel O’Grady will perform musical classics from the Joycean repertoire.

Take a look behind the scenes at the James Joyce Centre Open Video>

The Hugh Lane
Celebrate Culture Night at the Hugh Lane with an evening of music, poetry and special tours of the Collection and Richard Hamilton, Rita Donagh and Willie Doherty exhibitions. The Gallery café will be open for those who would like to continue the discussion while enjoying something to eat or drink.

Take a look behind the scenes at The Hugh Lane  Open Video>

Trinity College
The Old Library and the Book of Kells exhibition a ‘must see’ on the itinerary of all visitors to Dublin on Culture Night!

Take a look behind the scenes at Trinity College Dublin  Open Video>