5125 x 3417 px | 43,4 x 28,9 cm | 17,1 x 11,4 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
16. Juni 2010
Ort:
Kildare Street, Dublin, Ireland
Weitere Informationen:
The National Museum of Ireland was founded under the Dublin Science and Art Museum Act of 1877. To provide storage and display space for the Leinster House collections, the government quickly implemented plans to construct a new, custom-built museum on Kildare Street and on 29 August 1890, the new museum opened its doors to the public. The building, designed by Cork architects Thomas Newenham Deane and his son Thomas Manly Deane, is an architectural landmark. It is built in the Victorian Palladian style and has been compared with the Altes Museum in Berlin, designed by Karl Schinkel in the 1820s. Neo-classical influences can be seen in the colonnaded entrance and the domed rotunda, which rises to a height of 20 metres and is modelled on the Pantheon in Rome.
