Press release

Minister Martin approves over €170,000 in funding for local and regional museums

From: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
Published on: 28 July 2022
Last updated on: 12 April 2025

The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin, has today announced a series of small grants for local and regional museums around the country. Total funding of €170,206.50 is being made available under the Regional Museum Exhibitions Scheme 2022.

Projects funded under this Scheme seek to enhance the cultural offering of museums, to encourage greater access to museums and to promote the use of museums as tourism resources in their locality or region.

15 projects are benefitting this year, including Foynes Flying Boat Museum to revamp its Boeing 314 Flying Boat replica and Monaghan County Museum for exhibition cases for the museum's new site at the Peace Campus, Monaghan.

Speaking today Minister Martin said:

“Our local and regional museums are an extremely important resource for accessing culture and heritage in towns and villages across the country and I am delighted to be able to offer them support through the Regional Museum Exhibitions Scheme.

"Funding provided under this scheme allows local and regional bodies to continue to enhance their exhibitions which improves the cultural offering for their communities and visitors.

"Cultural spaces are really important and can bring communities together, make people feel more engaged and part of something bigger than themselves.”

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Please see below full list of successful projects:

Applicants	County	Project description	Funding allocated
Limerick Museum	Limerick	Tracing the Pattern of Limerick Lace	€6,000.00
Deaf Heritage Centre	Dublin	To catalogue the entire archive of the Deaf Heritage Centre	€12,546.00
Waterford Treasures Museum	Waterford	Showcases and fitout for a new visitor attraction	€15,000.00
Cork Butter Museum	Cork	Create a body of 3D captured objects from the Butter Museum’s collection	€ 4,895.00
Cavan & Leitrim Railway	Leitrim	To provide a steam locomotive 'Nancy' with an air brake so that the loco can operate safely with members of the public	€ 9,950.00
Kerry Cultural & Literary Centre CLG	Kerry	Conservation work and development of a new exhibition on a collection of Celtic Illumination artwork by Michael O'Connor (1913 to 1969) which has recently been donated to the museum	€13,987.50
National Print Museum	Dublin	Curate and exhibit 'Grand Stuff, Label Art from Ireland', an exhibition on the theme of a new book project by design historian Niall McCormack	€8,100.00
Foynes Flying Boat & Maritime Museum	Limerick	A revamp of the museum's Boeing 314 Flying Boat replica	€15,000.00
Monaghan County Museum	Monaghan	3 exhibition cases for the museum's new site at the Peace Campus, Monaghan	€15,000.00
Sirus Arts Centre	Cork	Research, cataloguing and interpreting of artworks and associated content that belong to the collection and archive, as well as their dissemination and display both online and on-site, in periodical exhibition form, beginning with a launch exhibit featuring one or more key artworks and archive materials that represent the breadth and variety of the items concerned	€10,275.00
Nano Nagle Place	Cork	Create a suite of child centric interpretive furniture and interactive content	€15,000.00
The Hunt Museum	Limerick	Explore the story of clay and ceramics: to investigate the historical, social, technical, cultural impact of clay and how civilisations have developed in tandem with ceramic technologies; to examine mankind's impulse to create in clay and how identity is entwined with the development of ceramics	€15,000.00
Tipperary Museum of Hidden History	Tipperary	“Untold” Tipperary’s Civil War - An exhibition to include never before seen objects from the museum's collection and unique family personal possessions which tell dramatic stories of Tipperary’s Civil War	€15,000.00
Dublin Cemeteries Trust	Dublin	Purchase of 2 museum standard cases for the display of the historic archival collection of the Trust	€12,453.00
Irish Jewish Museum	Dublin	Framing of 2 paintings	€ 2,000.00
			€170,206.50

Minister Martin approves over €170,000 in funding for local and regional museums

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