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Hunt Museum announces two exhibitions for Limerick running up to September 20, 2026
Hunt Museum announces two summer exhibitions for Limerick running up to September 20, 2026. Our, Óir, Ore: Four Millennia of Silver and Gold offers a compelling journey through the enduring significance of precious metals. Picture by: Kieran Ryan-Benson
From gold and silver to contemporary conversations, the Hunt Museum announces two exhibitions in Limerick for Summer 2026
The Hunt Museum presents two complementary exhibitions opening this summer, inviting audiences to explore the rich cultural and artistic heritage of Limerick and the wider Shannon region, running up to September 20, 2026.
Our, Óir, Ore: Four Millennia of Silver and Gold offers a compelling journey through the enduring significance of precious metals with a focus on Limerick’s underacknowledged history at the centre of Bronze Age trade. This exhibition reclaims Limerick’s importance, highlighting the ingenuity, technical mastery, and creative vision behind works of lasting brilliance found or made in the Shannon region over four millennia.
With a narrative that begins in the Twentieth century and moves backwards through time, from Limerick’s Georgian silversmithing tradition, through early Christian and Viking metalwork, and into the Iron and Bronze Ages, this reverse chronology reveals the deep-rooted innovation and skill that define Ireland’s metalworking heritage.
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Many of the objects on display were made or discovered in the Limerick region – positioned on Europe’s western edge, these artefacts demonstrate how trade, wealth, and craftsmanship flourished here, connecting Limerick to wider cultural and economic networks. Drawing on works from the Hunt Collection, Limerick Museum, the National Museum of Ireland, and private lenders, the exhibition presents a rich and layered history spanning over four millennia.
Running in tandem, OUR: Conversations with the Collection explores how meaning is amplified when contemporary art enters into dialogue with historical artefacts. This exhibition offers a powerful and original lens through which to understand human culture. Placing objects from the Hunt Museum alongside contemporary works by artists and craftspeople, it reveals striking continuities in how objects carry meaning across time and geography.
Contributors include Ghanaian artist, Ibrahim Mahama, Cecilia Bullo, Guggi, Eithne Jordan and Sonja Landweer with works on view by Henry Moore, William Scott and Giorgio Morandi, this exhibition offers a compelling encounter with the quiet power of objects to shape human stories.
Together, these exhibitions form a fresh and immersive experience of the Hunt Collection, connecting Limerick’s past with contemporary artistic expression and revealing the continued relevance of cultural heritage today.
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